What is it about?
Humidity detection is crucial in a broad variety of fields, from environmental monitoring to the control of advance manufacturing processes. The study explores the feasibility of combining the exceptional adsorption capacity of Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) materials with the remote operation of magneto-elastic sensors to develop an effective wireless humidity sensor.
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Why is it important?
The sensors performed successfully for humidity detection (showing high selectivity to water molecules, sensitivity, stability, precision and competent response times), with the unique feature of operating remotely, which makes them important in some applications, for example in those where the sensor is required to operate in hermetic, closed or hardly accessible spaces. The MOF material provides these sensors with great versatility of operation, as long as they can be selected to tune the range of operation, the sensitivity, the time of response and even the target molecule (the MOF can be designed to harvest different molecules). Besides humidity detection, another significant implication of the research is that magnetoelastic resonators have turned out to be a new wireless gravimetric tool to characterize the dynamic adsorption capacity of MOF materials and in extension, of porous materials in general.
Perspectives
The ability of magnetoelastic sensors to operate contactless combined with the adsorption capacity and the tailored selectivity of MOF materials, leads to a very promising alliance for developing a new generation of contactless gas sensors.
Beatriz Sisniega
Universidad del Pais Vasco
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This page is a summary of: Magnetoelastic resonators functionalized with metal–organic framework water harvesters as wireless humidity sensors, APL Materials, July 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0206165.
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