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Evolution of water structures in metal-organic frameworks for improved atmospheric water harvesting

2021; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 374; Issue: 6566 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.abj0890

1095-9203

Nikita Hanikel, Xiaokun Pei, Saumil Chheda, Hao Lyu, WooSeok Jeong, Joachim Sauer, Laura Gagliardi, Omar M. Yaghi,

Machine Learning in Materials Science

Designing water uptake Although the locations of water molecules in some porous materials have been determined with diffraction techniques, determining the filling sequence of water sites has been challenging. Hanikel et al . used single-crystal x-ray diffraction to locate all of the water molecules in pores of the metal-organic framework MOF-303 at different water loadings (see the Perspective by Öhrström and Amombo Noa). They used this information on the water molecule adsorption sequence to modify the linkers of this MOF and control the water-harvesting properties from humid air for different temperature regimes. —PDS