October 21, 2024

Congratulations! Our alumni, Cheng Zhu, has been awarded the 2023-2024 Kavli Thesis Prize. Cheng’s thesis presents an innovative supramolecular assembly …

October 2, 2024

A photodiode can trigger bias-free redox reactions but is often hindered by thermodynamic barriers. Now, a bacteria-conjugated silicon biophotochemical diode …

August 29, 2024

Since its launch in 2020, the Liquid Sunlight Alliance has enabled progress in artificial photosynthesis – including advances in device …

July 31, 2024

Recently, a handful of “climate innovators” were identified as a part of Berkeley’s ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship to combat …

July 15, 2024

TSMC announced that it is starting trial production of its gate-all-around 2 nm technology, to be used in the Apple …

July 15, 2024

Congratulations! Our postdoc alumni, Dr. Pengcheng Chen (now an Assistant Professor at Fudan University, China), has been awarded the 2024 …

June 28, 2024

June 26, 2024 – Polyelemental materials exhibit intriguing properties across various domains, including catalysis, structural materials, and optoelectronic devices. Understanding …

June 21, 2024

Congratulations! Yuxin Jiang won the best poster award at GRC (Gordon Research Conferences): Unconventional semiconductors and their applications.

April 5, 2024

Congratulations! Wei-Shan Huynh received the NSF GRFP award for his graduate study.

March 29, 2024

March 28, 2024 – At the bulk scale, gold and rhodium separate like oil and water, but at the nanoscale, …

February 29, 2024

February 5, 2024

January 31, 2024 – Researchers in the United States have developed a new 3D-printable crystalline material suitable for fabricating highly …

January 22, 2024

Berkeley, CA, January 22, 2024 – A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed “supramolecular …

January 14, 2024

January 12, 2024 – By stabilising perovskites in a supramolecular assembly, US researchers have produced effective photoluminescent materials that can …

January 4, 2024

Science Editor’s Summary — Many inorganic perovskites can show strong photoluminescence, including ones based on hafnium and zirconium halides, but …

December 7, 2023

Congratulations! Maria Fonseca Guzman and Yuxin Jiang have been awarded the 2024-2025 Kavli ENSI Philomathia Graduate Student Fellowship.

October 23, 2023

Congratulations! Arifin won the 1st prize in the poster presentation category during the CARA-BASF Fall 2023 Review Meeting in UC …

September 29, 2023

Berkeley, CA, September 28, 2023 – Semiconductors are the heart of almost every electronic device. Without semiconductors, our computers would …

August 18, 2023

Our 2023 group poster is now available for prospective students.

July 31, 2023

Congratulations! Yu Shan has been awarded the Hearts to Humanity Research Grant and Award 2023. Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) …

April 8, 2023

Real-time movies show catalyst at work March 22, 2023 – Copper is the only catalyst known to transform atmospheric carbon …

February 16, 2023

Berkeley, CA, February 16, 2023 – Since the 1970s, scientists have known that copper has a special ability to transform …

February 11, 2023

Congratulations! Maria C. Folgueras has been awarded the 2022-2023 Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award. The Tucker Award is given to …

December 17, 2022

Congratulations! Jimin Kim has been awarded the 2022 MRS Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

December 17, 2022

Congratulations! Cheng Zhu has been awarded the 2023-2024 Kavli ENSI Philomathia Graduate Student Fellowship.

December 2, 2022

Congratulations! Stefano Cestellos-Blanco (MSE 2016, now a postdoctoral fellow in Zhenan Bao’s group) has been awarded the 2022 Kavli ENSI …

November 29, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in …

November 23, 2022

Congratulations! Maria C. Folgueras has won the Best Presentation Award at the Gareth Thomas Materials Symposium at UCSD.

September 29, 2022

Converting CO2 into value-added liquid products through renewable electricity is a promising research direction that can significantly contribute to realizing …

September 1, 2022

August 30, 2022 – Solar panels, also known as photovoltaics, rely on semiconductor devices, or solar cells, to convert energy …

August 19, 2022

August 19, 2022 – Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottler, has announced a collaboration, through its innovation …

August 12, 2022

Our 2022 group poster is now available for prospective students.

July 27, 2022

Dr. Yao Yang’s latest paper on “Operando Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Studies of Chemical Environment and Interparticle Dynamics of Cu …

May 12, 2022

FLORHAM PARK, NJ, May 5, 2022 – The California Research Alliance (CARA) by BASF has led to 100 research projects …

April 25, 2022

Congratulations! Yao Yang has been awarded the 2022 AC/DC Rising Stars in Analytical Chemistry. Yao will be presenting his works …

April 2, 2022

The industry partnership team of California Research Alliance (CARA) by BASF wins the 2022 Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award (COSA) awarded …

March 31, 2022

Congratulations! Libby Lineberry has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship from the Department of Defense.

December 8, 2021

Congratulations! Maria C. Folgueras has been awarded the 2022-2023 Kavli ENSI Philomathia Graduate Student Fellowship.

December 3, 2021

Congratulations to the following group members for their recent research awards: Ye and Mengyu won the 2021 MRS Graduate Student …

November 23, 2021

Prof. Peidong Yang has been elected a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the story was reported by UC Berkeley …

October 18, 2021

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 …