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Magnetic shaping assembles hygroscopic MOF powders into microbots, and mMOF-303 shows enhanced water adsorption kinetics with efficient regeneration using photothermal, electrothermal, and magnetothermal heating.
- Why it matters: Powder MOFs are hard to manipulate and shaping can slow mass transfer, limiting atmospheric water harvesting and humidity control in practical devices.
- What they did: Using a honeybee-swarm-inspired “hot defensive ball” aggregation morphology, the team magnetically shaped MOF-303 into microbots and tested water sorption–desorption and regeneration under multimodal heating.
- The result: The microbots can alter aggregation patterns and move directionally, enabling rapid sorption–desorption and precision humidity control in confined spaces.
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