Thermophotovoltaic efficiency of 40.

Thermophotovoltaics (TPVs) convert predominantly infrared wavelength light to electricity via the photovoltaic effect, and can enable approaches to energy storage and conversion that use higher temperature heat sources than the turbines that are ubiquitous in electricity production today. Since the first demonstration of 29% efficient TPVs (Fig. 1a) using an integrated back surface reflector and a tungsten emitter at 2,000 °C (ref.

Adsorption-Based Atmospheric Water Harvesting: Impact of Material and Component Properties on System-Level Performance.

Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is the capture and collection of water that is present in the air either as vapor or small water droplets. AWH has been recognized as a method for decentralized water production, especially in areas where liquid water is physically scarce, or the infrastructure required to bring water from other locations is unreliable or infeasible. The main methods of AWH are fog harvesting, dewing, and utilizing sorbent materials to collect vapor from the air.

Tunable Metal-Organic Frameworks Enable High-Efficiency Cascaded Adsorption Heat Pumps.

Rising global standards of living coupled to the recent agreement to eliminate hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants are creating intense pressure to develop more sustainable climate control systems. In this vein, the use of water as the refrigerant in adsorption heat pumps is highly attractive, but such adsorption systems are constrained to large size and poor efficiency by the characteristics of currently employed water sorbents. Here we demonstrate control of the relative humidity of water uptake by modulating the pore size in a family of isoreticular triazolate metal-organic frameworks.