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

Hyunho KimSameer R RaoShankar NarayananEugene A KapustinSungwoo YangHiroyasu FurukawaAri S UmansOmar M YaghiEvelyn N Wang
Published in: Science (New York, N.Y.) (2017)
In their comment, Bui et al argue that the approach we described in our report is vastly inferior in efficiency to alternative off-the-shelf technologies. Their conclusion is invalid, as they compare efficiencies in completely different operating conditions. Here, using heat transfer and thermodynamics principles, we show how Bui et al's conclusions about the efficiencies of off-the-shelf technologies are fundamentally flawed and inaccurate for the operating conditions described in our study.
Keyphrases
  • metal organic framework
  • heat stress