UC Berkeley | College of Chemistry

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- Our mission is to partner with institutions of learning, foundations, government and industry, in the United States and abroad to create centers of research in foundational sciences to address global problems and build a culture of science.
  
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Global Science Nodes
- A shift in viewpoint from a local community of researchers to a global one will infuse all areas of science with new ideas and provide opportunities for scientists at large. Our successful approach relies on strategic partnerships with universities worldwide to form "Centers of Global Science."
  
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  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
  
  KACST, Saudi Arabia
  
  FORMS, Malaysia
  
  RSS, Jordan
  
  UNAM, Mexico
  
  SuNaLab, Argentina
  
  CARA by BASF
  
  MANAR, Vietnam
  
  NIMS, Japan
LRE Program
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NetCentre
- Resources for understanding the underlying structures of reticular materials and databases for naming and numbering all classes of reticular materials.
  
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  RCSR Database
  
  Naming and Numbering Database
  
  EPINET Project

Press Reports for the Solar-Powered Water Harvesting Device Developed by Prof. Yaghi

April 19, 2017

The collaborative research between UC Berkeley and MIT using MOF-801 to harvest fresh water from dry air with only ambient sunlight has received worldwide media coverage, including: Berkeley News, LBL News, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, NPR, The Washington Post,Newsweek, Cosmos, BBC News, Fortune, The Times, Optics & Photonics, IEEE Spectrum, The Japan Times, Irish Independent, The Indian Tribune, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nature Middle East, Physics World, CNN, Asia Pacific Daily, New York Post, Discover, Thomson Reuters, Nature, C&EN, Chemistry World