Nanowires are promising building blocks for artificial photosynthesis.
Nanocrystals can be designed with specific catalytic functionality.
Nanowire photoelectrodes power the CO2 fixation with sunlight.
The nanowire geometry is intriguing for miniaturized optics and photonics.
System integration for solar to fuel conversion.
September 19, 2026
As the microelectronics industry moves to adopt Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor architecture in next-generation devices, marked by Apple’s recent announcement that …
September 3, 2026
Press Release The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named two prominent faculty members from the College of Chemistry as recipients …
August 18, 2026
Congratulations! Lihini Jayasinghe has been awarded the 2026-2027 Kavli ENSI Graduate Student Fellowship.
August 17, 2026
Congratulations! Jihoon has been selected to receive a 2026 Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) research grant award.
May 23, 2026
Congratulations to our 12 graduates this year! In addition, congratulations to our graduates who have received prestigious awards/fellowships: Maria Fonseca …
April 28, 2026
UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry and Veolia, a global leader in environmental services and resource management headquartered in France, have entered …
February 3, 2026
A new technology has been developed that uses two types of microorganisms in stages to convert carbon dioxide, a major …
February 3, 2026
Here’s a novel pathway to a more sustainable planet: carbo-loading for the public good. In a new study published in Nature Synthesis, …
September 23, 2025
Key Takeaways Berkeley Lab scientists showed a novel way to build advanced transistors decades before similar structures reached smartphones. Their …
August 26, 2025
Congratulations! Julian Feijoo has been awarded for his presentation at the ACS Fall 2025 meeting.
July 1, 2025
As the microelectronics industry moves to adopt gate-all-around transistor designs in next-generation smartphones, groundbreaking research at Berkeley Lab demonstrated an …
June 26, 2025
Congratulations! Amelyn Phang received the NSF GRF award for her graduate study at Caltech.
June 25, 2025
Understanding the nature of structural evolution of Cu nanocatalysts during CO2 electroreduction is a long-standing question in catalysis science. Now, …
April 25, 2025
Congratulations! Alex Sachelarie has been awarded the 2025 Glenn T. Seaborg award.
April 25, 2025
Key Takeaways The Liquid Sunlight Alliance is a multi-institutional collaboration working to develop the tools needed to use energy from …
April 14, 2025
Congratulations! Our new postdoctoral fellow, Mihail Krumov, has been awarded the 2025 Arnold O. Beckman postdoctoral fellowship from the Arnold …
April 14, 2025
Congratulations! Julian Feijoo has been awarded the silver prize of the 2025 Spring MRS Graduate Student Award.
March 12, 2025
For many years, researchers have been working to build devices that can mimic photosynthesis—the process by which plants use sunlight …
February 5, 2025
Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone …
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 …
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.
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
