What Is Stopping MOFs Being More Widely Used?

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3 points | by giardini 15 days ago

2 comments

  • giardini 15 days ago
    MOFs (Metal-Oxide-Frameworks) have been around since early 1990s, supposedly promise radical improvements (e.g., literally water in the desert) yet we see little implementation. Why?
  • tocs3 15 days ago
    I am wondering the same thing. I was reading a paper yesterday,

    High-yield, green and scalable methods for producing MOF-303 for water harvesting from desert air

    https://yaghi.berkeley.edu/pdfPublications/22ScaleUp.pdf

    I might (one day) try to make some. I wonder a little about the useful life span and what sort of downside there would be to making / using this.