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The atmosphere contains an abundance of fresh water, but this resource has yet to be harvested efficiently. To date, passive atmospheric water sorbents have required a desorption step that relies on steady solar irradiation. Since the availability and intensity of solar radiation vary, these limit on-demand desorption and hence the amount of harvestable water. Here, we report a polymer–metal-organic framework that provides simultaneous and uninterrupted sorption and release of atmospheric water. The adaptable nature of the hydro-active polymer, and its hybridization with a metal-organic framework, enables enhanced sorption kinetics, water uptake, and spontaneous water oozing. We demonstrate continuous water delivery for 1440 hours, producing 6 g of fresh water per gram of sorbent at 90% relative humidity (RH) per day without active condensation. This leads to a total liquid delivery efficiency of 95% and an autonomous liquid delivery efficiency of 71%, the record among reported atmospheric water harvesters.

In this paper, we systematically study the dynamics of a nonautonomous predator-prey system with the Beddington-DeAngelis functional response. The explorations involve the permanence, extinction, global asymptotic stability (general nonautonomous case); the existence, uniqueness and stability of a positive (almost) periodic solution and a boundary (almost) periodic solution for the periodic (almost periodic) case. The paper ends with some interesting numerical simulations that complement our analytical findings.  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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