Brief Description
Water Harvesting Inc. was formed in 2018 to commercialize atmospheric water harvesting systems based on metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and address the global challenge of water scarcity. MOFs work for atmospheric water harvesting even under very arid conditions.
Inventors
Farhad Fathieh, Nikita Hanikel, Markus Kalmutzki, Ievgen Kapustin, Hao Lyu, Mathieu Steven Prevot, Omar Yaghi, JingJing Yang, Bing Zhang
Company Founders
Frank Ramirez (Berkeley Law, JD, 1979), Chris Kay, Eugene Kapustin (UC Berkeley PhD, 2018, Chemistry), David Kuo (UC Berkeley, MS, 1985, Ph.D., 1989, Mechanical Engineering), UC Berkeley Professor Omar Yaghi
Timeline
- 2018. Company founded.