Response to Comment on "Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight"

Hyunho Kim; Sameer R Rao; Eugene A Kapustin; Shankar Narayanan; Sungwoo Yang; Hiroyasu Furukawa; Ari S Umans; Omar M Yaghi; Evelyn N Wang

doi:10.1126/science.aao0433

Response to Comment on "Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight"

Science. 2017 Nov 24;358(6366):eaao0433. doi: 10.1126/science.aao0433.

Authors

Hyunho Kim¹, Sameer R Rao¹, Eugene A Kapustin², Shankar Narayanan¹, Sungwoo Yang¹, Hiroyasu Furukawa², Ari S Umans¹, Omar M Yaghi^{3

4}, Evelyn N Wang⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley; Berkeley Global Science Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
³ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley; Berkeley Global Science Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. enwang@mit.edu yaghi@berkeley.edu.
⁴ King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. enwang@mit.edu yaghi@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 29170205
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao0433

Abstract

The Comment by Meunier states that the process we described in our report cannot deliver the claimed amount of liquid water in an arid climate. This statement is not valid because the parameters presented in our study were inappropriately combined to draw misguided conclusions.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Desert Climate
Metal-Organic Frameworks
Sunlight*
Water*

Substances

Metal-Organic Frameworks
Water