Broadly Tunable Atmospheric Water Harvesting in Multivariate Metal-Organic Frameworks

Development of multivariate metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as derivatives of the state-of-art water-harvesting material MOF-303 {[Al(OH)(PZDC)], where PZDC2- is 1H-pyrazole-3,5-dicarboxylate} was shown to be a powerful tool to generate efficient water sorbents tailored to a given environmental condition. Herein, a new multivariate MOF-303-based water harvesting framework series from readily available reactants is developed. The resulting MOFs exhibit a larger degree of tunability in the operational relative humidity range (16%), regeneration temperature (14 degrees C), and desorption enthalpy (5 kJ mol-1) than reported previously. Additionally, a high-yielding (>= 90%) and scalable (similar to 3.5 kg) synthesis is demonstrated in water and with excellent space-time yields, without compromising framework crystallinity, porosity, and water-harvesting performance.

Automated summary

A new series of multivariate MOF-303-based water harvesting frameworks with greater tunability has been developed, along with a high-yielding and scalable synthesis method. The framework maintains its crystallinity, porosity, and water-harvesting performance.