August 24, 2021

Congratulations to our own Team SSwEET! We demonstrated abiotic CO2 to sugar conversion and were the only academic lab among industrial …

May 9, 2021

Congratulations! Andy has been selected by Chemistry department to receive the 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. The list of Outstanding …

May 9, 2021

Rachel has been awarded the 2021 Erich O. and Elly M. Saegebarth Prize in Chemistry! Congratulations!

March 25, 2021

Rachel has been selected to receive a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). The list of Fellow candidates …

March 3, 2021

Our 2021 group poster and lab tour video for prospective students are shown below! Research Poster Lab Tour Video More …

November 30, 2020

Dohyung and Sunmoon have contributed a blog post of their work on selective CO2 electrocatalysis to the Nature Research Chemistry …

November 24, 2020

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which was founded in 1848 and is the world’s largest general …

October 21, 2020

Stefano has been selected to be one of the 25 outstanding young scientists and winner of the Green Talents Competition 2020. …

September 9, 2020

Prof. Peidong Yang has been recognized as one of the three laureates of the 2020 Global Energy Prize for pioneering …

March 31, 2020

Yude, Stefano and Ji Min’s work on nanowire-bacteria hybrids for CO2 fixation has been reported by Berkeley News, Optics & Photonics …

January 24, 2020

Hone, Jia and Joohoon’s work on single-crystalline perovskite blue LEDs has been highlighted by Berkeley News.

January 6, 2020

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 …

February 6, 2018

January 23, 2018

December 14, 2017

Kelsey’s work reported by Harvard Science Review.

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 …