Nanowires are promising building blocks for artificial photosynthesis.
Nanocrystals can be designed with specific catalytic functionality.
Nanowires enable novel solar cell geometries for improved performance.
The nanowire geometry is intriguing for miniaturized optics and photonics.
Nanowires can inhibit heat transport for next-generation thermoelectrics.
August 14, 2019
A special issue on Nanowires edited by Peidong is published in Chemical Reviews. This special issue comprehensively summarized the progress …
July 1, 2019
A Review article by Mike Ross, et al, titled “Designing Materials for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Recycling” is published in Nature …
May 19, 2019
NASA awarded a total of $250,000 to five teams in the initial phase of the CO2 Conversion Challenge. Our team …
March 28, 2019
Yuhong’s work on delivery of macromolecules into cells has been reported by Berkeley News. This work is published online this week …
February 15, 2019
Effective January 1, 2019, our PI, Prof. Peidong Yang, assumes the role of Director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute …
November 27, 2018
Clarivate Analytics has released the report “Highly Cited Researchers 2018”. Scientists named Highly Cited Researchers are among an elite group recognized …
October 3, 2018
Hao’s work on gold cluster-bacteria photosynthetic biohybrid system has been reported by Physics World. This work has also been reported …
October 1, 2018
Hao’s work on MOF protected bacteria-semiconductor hybrid has been reported in Berkeley News. Just as spacesuits help astronauts survive in …
September 24, 2018
Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute Thesis Prize Selection Committee has selected Dohyung to receive the 2017-2018 Best Thesis Prize. The prize is …
August 16, 2018
April 24, 2018
Nick Kornienko (Ph.D. 2016) will start his independent research at the University of Montreal (http://en.chimie.umontreal.ca/home/) Department of Chemistry as an …
April 23, 2018
Chenlu and Fan won the Chinese Oversea Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations!
April 1, 2018
Dohyung won the MRS Graduate Student Award, congratulations!
February 9, 2018
“New Smart Windows Darken in the Sun—and Generate Electricity at the Same Time“, Jia’s work published in Nature Materials has been reported …
December 2, 2017
“A New Direction towards Carbon Management“, an interview of Dohyung by Chemical Today Magazine.
October 14, 2017
Chong is named SN 10 for 2017 – ten early- and mid-career scientists who stand out to mentors and peers as people who …
September 30, 2017
Dohyung’s paper in PNAS is reported by LBNL News Center: “Copper Catalyst Yields High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion — Berkeley Lab …
September 14, 2017
Mike’s work on syngas electrosynthesis in JACS is reported by LBNL News Center: “Scientists Fine-Tune System to Create ‘Syngas’ from …
April 28, 2017
Woochul’s work on “ultralow thermal conductivity in all-inorganic halide perovskites” has been highlighted in LBNL News Center, titled “A Semiconductor …
April 27, 2017
Kelsey’s work presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington has been reported by BBC News: “Cyborg bacteria deliver green …
Materials Chemistry Mini Symposium & Celebrating 20 Years of Nanowire and Energy Research
