Water Harvester (VIDEO)

University of California - Berkeley

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Omar Yaghi, a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, explains how metal-organic frameworks are built and how they are able to absorb gases and liquids, including water directly from low humidity air. One of the MOFs he synthesized has been used by MIT engineers to construct a water harvester that sucks water from dry air and can condense liters per day.

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Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley. Harvester photos courtesy of MIT.

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