The Economic Times

This Nobel Prize winner built a machine that extracts 1,000 liters of water from air each day

Professor Omar Yaghi, a 2025 Nobel Prize-winning chemist, has developed a revolutionary machine that extracts drinking water directly from the air. Using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), highly porous materials created via reticular chemistry, the device captures water molecules even in low humidity. Powered only by sunlight or low-grade thermal energy, it functions off-grid, generating up to 1,000 liters of clean water everyday.