Shaping matter at the smallest scale.

As the microelectronics industry moves to adopt Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor architecture in next-generation devices, marked by Apple's recent announcement that the iPhone 18 will use TSMC's 2nm GAAFET A20 chip, we want to highlight a landmark contribution from our very own Professor Peidong Yang. Back in 2006, long before GAAFET became the industry standard for sub-3nm nodes, Professor Yang's group published pioneering research demonstrating the bottom-up chemical synthesis of gate-all-around silicon nanowire structures (Nano Letters, 2006). Their early proof-of-concept work validated the superior electrostatic control of complete gate-wrapping, helping pave the path for today's commercial microchip revolution. "Gate-All-Around Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors: A Historical Perspective", Lei Tang, Peidong Yang, Nano Lett., 26, 15, 4913–4922 (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c00466. It's amazing to see fundamental chemistry research conducted over 20 years ago shape the future of global tech today! Read more about the history and impact of this work. The early research: https://bit.ly/4xSFipw. The tech today: https://bit.ly/4xtxcCM. Berkeley Lab. University of California, Berkeley.

Announcement that ACS named Peidong Yang and Ronald C. Cohen recipients of 2027 National Awards; profiles Yang's nanoscience/artificial-photosynthesis work and Cohen's atmospheric-chemistry work; two embedded portrait images; closes pointing readers to the full announcement in Chemical & Engineering News.

Congratulations! Lihini Jayasinghe has been awarded the 2026-2027 Kavli ENSI Graduate Student Fellowship.

Congratulations! Jihoon has been selected to receive a 2026 Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) research grant award.

Congratulations to our 12 graduates this year! In addition, congratulations to our graduates who have received prestigious awards/fellowships: Maria Fonseca Guzman: 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award, BIDMaP Postdoc fellowship; Yuxin Jiang: Stanford Science Postdoc Fellowship; Anna Chen: 2026 Senior Undergraduate Research Award, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; Skye Leng: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

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College of Chemistry press release announcing an MOU between UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry and Veolia (French environmental services firm) to research detection of trace impurities in water relevant to semiconductor chip manufacturing; Berkeley side led by Peidong Yang; quotes from interim dean Anne Baranger and Veolia's Philippe Seberac; mentions atomic-scale "molecular filters" for pollutants such as TFA; goals of decarbonization, depollution, resource regeneration; two captioned photos.

footer "Author: Byeongku Lee" · External source: Original title "Microbial assembly line turns carbon dioxide into butanol fuel"; Author: Byeongku Lee; Link: DongA Science.

DongA Science article on a UNIST–UC Berkeley collaboration (Prof. Kim Jin-hyun, UNIST; Prof. Douglas Clark, Prof. Peidong Yang, researchers Cho Hye-jin, Cha Hee-jeong): a two-stage continuous microbial process converting CO2 to butanol — acetogen Sporomusa ovata converts CO2 to acetic acid, then engineered E. coli converts it to butanol (3.8x efficiency gain via engineering); stable butanol production for 90+ hours with only CO2 and H2 inputs at 4.8 mg/L/hr; published in Bioresource Technology; not yet economically viable.

footer "Author: Jim Shelton" · External source: Original title "Sweetening the deal for sustainability — while removing carbon dioxide"; Author: Jim Shelton; Link: Yale news.

Yale News article: Yale chemists (Hailiang Wang et al.) and UC Berkeley's Peidong Yang developed a two-step CO2-to-carbohydrate process published in Nature Synthesis — electrochemical conversion of CO2 halted at formaldehyde, stabilized as hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS), then thermochemically converted to long-chain carbohydrates (5–6 carbons); co-corresponding authors Hailiang Wang (Yale) and Peidong Yang (Berkeley); co-leads Jing Li, Kedang Chen (Yale); funded by NSF, National Brown Investigator Award, Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture.

footer "Author: Theresa Duque and Alison Hatt" (image paths 2025/09) · External source: Original title "Early Research Demonstrated Novel Approach to Next-Generation Transistor Design"; Author: Theresa Duque and Alison Hatt; Link: Berkeley Lab News.

Berkeley Lab News feature (with "Key Takeaways" bullets) on the Yang group's 2006 bottom-up chemical synthesis of gate-all-around Si nanowire FETs (Nano Letters, "Silicon Vertically Integrated Nanowire Field Effect Transistors," by Yang, Joshua Goldberger, Rong Fan, et al.) as a forerunner of today's industry GAA-FET adoption at sub-5nm nodes; SEM/TEM image captions; quotes from Peidong Yang; GAA vs FinFET explainer.

Congratulations! Julian Feijoo has been awarded for his presentation at the ACS Fall 2025 meeting.

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Condensed group-page summary of the Berkeley Lab article's section on the Yang group's 2006 GAA nanowire FET work; historical photo of Joshua Goldberger and Rong Fan (ca. 2005).

Congratulations! Amelyn Phang received the NSF GRF award for her graduate study at Caltech.

footer "Author: Debangshu Mukerjee" (image path 2025/06) · External source: Original title "Operando imaging reveals nanocatalyst reconstruction"; Author: Debangshu Mukerjee; Link: Nature Catalysis News & Views.

Nature Catalysis News & Views piece on Yang, Mavrikakis et al.'s operando study of Cu nanocube reconstruction during CO2 electroreduction: liquid-cell STEM, 4D STEM, SERS, DFT showing CO-driven Cu atom migration; size-dependent pathways (55-nm vs 27-nm cubes); reconstructed nanograins maintain high ethylene selectivity.

Congratulations! Alex Sachelarie has been awarded the 2025 Glenn T. Seaborg award.

footer "Author: Ashleigh Papp" (image paths 2025/04) · External source: Original title "Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals"; Author: Ashleigh Papp; Link: Berkeley Lab News.

Berkeley Lab News article (with Key Takeaways bullets) on the perovskite + copper-nanoflower artificial-leaf device converting CO2 into C2 products with sunlight, published in Nature Catalysis; part of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA) DOE Energy Innovation Hub (Caltech-led); quotes from Peidong Yang; postage-stamp-sized device; Molecular Foundry instruments used. (Note: the page's "article here" anchor targets www.nature.com.)

Congratulations! Our new postdoctoral fellow, Mihail Krumov, has been awarded the 2025 Arnold O. Beckman postdoctoral fellowship from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Mihail will join our group starting July 1, 2025.

Congratulations! Julian Feijoo has been awarded the silver prize of the 2025 Spring MRS Graduate Student Award.

footer "Author: Carly Kay" (image path 2025/03) · External source: Original title "This artificial leaf makes hydrocarbons out of carbon dioxide"; Author: Carly Kay; Link: MIT Technology Review (note: the "MIT Technology Review" anchor target displays as phys.org — oddity preserved).

MIT Technology Review article on the Cambridge–Berkeley artificial leaf (Virgil Andrei, Cambridge lead; Peidong Yang's Berkeley lab made the copper nanoflower catalysts; Nature Catalysis study, February) producing ethylene and ethane from CO2, water, and glycerol; silicon nanowires oxidize glycerol; quotes from Andrei and NUS's Yanwei Lum on commercialization challenges.

footer "Author: University of Cambridge" · External source: Original title "Tiny copper 'flowers' bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production"; Author: University of Cambridge; Link: phys.org.

University of Cambridge / phys.org article on the artificial leaf combining a perovskite light absorber with a copper nanoflower catalyst to convert CO2 into ethane/ethylene; lead author Virgil Andrei carried out the work in Peidong Yang's lab via the Winton Cambridge-Kavli ENSI Exchange program; silicon nanowire electrodes oxidize glycerol; 200x improvement over earlier water+CO2 systems; ~10% CO2-to-hydrocarbon selectivity.

Congratulations! Our alumni, Cheng Zhu, has been awarded the 2023-2024 Kavli Thesis Prize. Cheng's thesis presents an innovative supramolecular assembly strategy for designing metal halide perovskites by manipulating metal-halide complexes. The first section highlights the construction of charge-neutral (crown ether@A)2MX6 motifs, formed from crown ethers and double perovskite A2MX6, which assemble into hexagonal single crystals. In the second part, Cheng demonstrates near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) blue emission from the supramolecular assembly of [HfBr6]2- octahedral centers, a less explored configuration. Notably, (18C6@K)2HfBr6 solid powders exhibit a PLQY of 96.22%. Additionally, efficient green emission (82.69% PLQY) is achieved due to the high tunability of the dumbbell structural unit. The solution-processable nature of these materials enables their use in thin film and 3D printing applications. Cheng's research further expands the supramolecular approach to the one-dimensional (1D) molecular wire regium, with potential applications in miniaturized molecular optoelectronic devices. This work paves the way for significant advancements in both supramolecular assembly and nanomaterials research.

footer "Author: Jinhyeong Jang & Elena A. Rozhkova" (image path 2024/10) · External source: Original title "Carbon Conversion on Biophotonic Leaf"; Author: Jinhyeong Jang & Elena A. Rozhkova; Link: Nature Catalysis News & Views.

Nature Catalysis News & Views on Kim et al.'s silicon nanowire artificial leaf integrating chemotrophic Sporomusa ovata — Pt–Au n-type photoanode + living-bacteria p-type biophotocathode in a 15-cm biophotonic leaf; under 20 mW/cm2 red light (740 nm), CO2 → acetate via the whole-cell Wood–Ljungdahl pathway at +0.123 V vs RHE; adaptive lab evolution gave 5x acetate-production increase over 60 h; parallel glycerol → glyceric acid oxidation; ~1.2 mA/cm2 bias-free photocurrent, ~80% Faradaic efficiency both sides.

footer "Author: Theresa Duque" (image paths 2024/08) · External source: Original title "Five Ways LiSA is Advancing Solar Fuels"; Author: Theresa Duque; Link: Berkeley Lab News.

Berkeley Lab News feature (embedded YouTube video) on five Liquid Sunlight Alliance achievements since 2020: (1) 24/7 solar fuels via Peidong Yang's LED-illuminated Si nanowire system design; (2) multiscale modeling of artificial photosynthesis (Weber, Bell); (3) validated molecular model of corrosion/ion birth (Boettcher, Head-Gordon); (4) superfast X-ray operando characterization of Cu catalysts (Yano; SLAC SSRL, ALS); (5) new materials for solar CO2 conversion incl. protected semiconductors and Cu(InGa)S2 (Ager; imec Belgium, ALS). Quotes from Joel Ager; DOE Office of Science support.

footer "Author: Veronica Bartell" (image path 2024/07) · External source: Original title "Red Light-Powered Device for CO2 Fixation"; Author: Veronica Bartell; Link: College of Chemistry News.

College of Chemistry News piece profiling Peidong Yang as a Berkeley "climate innovator": the red-light-powered Si nanowire biophotochemical diode (S. ovata converting CO2 to acetate; Pt–Au photoanode; works under low-intensity red light, day and night), published in Nature Catalysis.

TSMC announced that it is starting trial production of its gate-all-around 2 nm technology, to be used in the Apple iPhone 17 lineup. Check out our first surrounding gate sub-5nm silicon nanowire transistor, published in 2006 (J. Goldberger et al., Nano Lett. 6, 973, 2006), a prototypical device concept for the Gate-All-Around 3nm/2nm nanowire/nanoribbon transistor technology. Article link: Econotimes

Congratulations! Our postdoc alumni, Dr. Pengcheng Chen (now an Assistant Professor at Fudan University, China), has been awarded the 2024 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in China.

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MRS Bulletin piece on the Yang/Persson Nature Nanotechnology study (doi 10.1038/s41565-024-01626-0) of mixing behavior of immiscible Au and Rh in 1–4 nm nanoparticles: polymer-micelle nanoreactor synthesis; size- and composition-dependent transition from heterostructured to alloyed; thermodynamic model including surface passivation; quotes from co-first authors Peng-Cheng Chen and Caitlin McCandler; comment from Younan Xia (Georgia Tech).

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

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

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Physics Today piece on the Au–Rh nanoscale miscibility study (P.-C. Chen et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. 2024, doi:10.1038/s41565-024-01626-0): below ~2 nm Au and Rh form alloys; low-energy STEM + random-walk algorithm for imaging 1–5 nm particles; polymer remnants altered surface energy, reconciling thermodynamic models; 50-50 composition most resistant to mixing.

The 2024 Yang Group research poster is now available.

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body opens "January 31, 2024 –"; footer "Author: Patricia Daukantas" · External source: Original title "Affordable, Printable Photoluminescent Material"; Author: Patricia Daukantas; Link: Optics and Photonics News, Optica.

Optica Optics & Photonics News piece on the "supramolecular ink" (Science, doi 10.1126/science.adi4196): crown-ether-guided assembly of metal-halide octahedra; hafnium blue emitters (96.2% PLQY), zirconium green emitters (82.7% PLQY); cheaper Earth-abundant alternative to iridium in OLEDs; 3D-printing ink demo; quotes from Cheng Zhu (Berkeley PhD candidate in Yang's group).

body opens "Berkeley, CA, January 22, 2024 –"; footer "Author: Theresa Duque, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" · External source: Original title "Scientists Advance Affordable, Sustainable Solution for Flat-Panel Displays and Wearable Tech"; Author: Theresa Duque, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Link: Berkeley Lab News Center.

Berkeley Lab News article on "supramolecular ink" (Science study): Hf/Zr-based powders forming a semiconductor ink at room temp–80°C for OLED displays and wearables; near-unity quantum efficiency; thin-film display prototype; 3D-printed Eiffel Tower structures; quotes from Peidong Yang and Cheng Zhu; author list; DOE Office of Science support; technology available for licensing via Berkeley Lab IP Office (ipo@lbl.gov); embedded mp4 video.

body opens "January 12, 2024 –"; footer "Author: Jamie Duranni" · External source: Original title "Photoluminescent 3D printer inks made with crown-ether-stabilised perovskites"; Author: Jamie Duranni; Link: Chemistry World.

Chemistry World piece: Peidong Yang's team created supramolecular assemblies using crown ethers and Hf/Zr halide perovskites; crown ethers stabilize otherwise air/moisture-sensitive perovskites, enabling 200°C solution synthesis vs 1000°C solid-state; 96% photoluminescence efficiency; 3D printer inks produced miniature light-emitting Eiffel Towers.

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Zhu et al. extend crown ether–assisted supramolecular assembly to stabilize octahedral [HfBr6]2– centers; (18C6@K)2HfBr6 powders show 96% PLQY blue emission, a zirconium analog 83% PLQY green; polymer addition created solution-processable inks for printed luminescent films/structures.

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

Congratulations! Arifin won the 1st prize in the poster presentation category during the CARA-BASF Fall 2023 Review Meeting in UC Santa Barbara, Oct. 18-20.

body opens "Berkeley, CA, September 28, 2023 –"; footer "Author: Theresa Duque, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" · External source: Original title "Accelerating Sustainable Semiconductors With 'Multielement Ink'"; Author: Theresa Duque, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Link: Berkeley Lab News Center.

Berkeley Lab News article on "multielement ink" — the first "high-entropy" semiconductor processable at low/room temperature (Nature paper): 5- and 6-element halide perovskite single crystals (SnTeReIrPt, ZrSnTeHfPt, SnTeReOsIrPt, ZrSnTeHfRePt), 30–100 µm; synthesized within hours; ≥6 months ambient stability; color-tunable LED via Cal Golden Bears logo demo; quotes from Peidong Yang, co-first authors Yuxin Jiang and Maria Folgueras (now senior research scientist at Dow); ALS confirmation; DOE Office of Science support; licensing via Berkeley Lab IP Office.

Our 2023 group poster is now available for prospective students.

Congratulations! Yu Shan has been awarded the Hearts to Humanity Research Grant and Award 2023. Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) is a nonprofit community with a collective aim to advance humanity through sciences through the ages. The community consists of university students and postdocs pursuing STEM research, members who share H2H8 core values, contribute to advance humanity through sciences, and pay back to the community.

body opens "March 22, 2023 –"; footer "Author: Alan S. Brown, The Kavli Foundation, Kavli Nanoscience Institute" · External source: Original title "From Movies of Catalysts to Carbon in Soil"; Author: Alan S. Brown, The Kavli Foundation, Kavli Nanoscience Institute; Link: The Kavli Foundation News.

Kavli Foundation piece ("Real-time movies show catalyst at work") on Yao Yang (postdoc in Peidong Yang's lab), who collaborated with Cornell Kavli co-director David Muller and invented a specialized liquid cell for electron microscopy to image how copper catalyzes CO2 into longer carbon chains.

body opens "Berkeley, CA, February 16, 2023 –"; footer "Author: Theresa Duque, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" · External source: Original title "How a Record-Breaking Copper Catalyst Converts CO2 Into Liquid Fuels"; Author: Theresa Duque, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Link: Berkeley Lab News Center.

Berkeley Lab News article (Nature paper, Feb 2023): operando 4D electrochemical liquid-cell STEM + soft X-ray RSoXS revealed 7–18 nm copper nanoparticles evolving into active metallic Cu "nanograins" during CO2 electrolysis, producing ethylene/ethanol/propanol; all 7-nm particles participated; record-low driving force (~300 mV less than bulk Cu); embedded YouTube video; quotes from Peidong Yang and Yao Yang; author list incl. Sheena Louisa, Sunmoon Yu, Jianbo Jin, Inwhan Roh, Chubai Chen, Maria V. Fonseca Guzman, Julian Feijóo, Peng-Cheng Chen, Hongsen Wang, Christopher Pollock, Xin Huang, Yu-Tsuan Shao, Cheng Wang, David A. Muller, Héctor D. Abruña; DOE Office of Science support.

Congratulations! Maria C. Folgueras has been awarded the 2022-2023 Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award. The Tucker Award is given to recognize superior work and scholarship in the characterization, development and/or use of semiconductor, magnetic, optical or electronic materials by a graduate student or students pursuing such areas of inquiry. For information of the award, please visit: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Students/Awards/19/

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

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

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

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Berkeley Lab News article on bio-inspired asymmetric C–C coupling (Nature Catalysis): mimicking the bacterial Wood–Ljungdahl pathway — Cu surface exposed to CH3I + CO with isotope labeling produced acetate, ethanol, acetone via asymmetric CO/CH3 coupling; Cu–Ag 7 nm tandem nanoparticle thin films (Ag as CO generator, Cu as CH3 generator and coupling center, confirmed by Molecular Foundry electron microscopy); quotes from Peidong Yang; references the 2015 nanowire-bacteria artificial photosynthesis study; DOE Office of Science support.

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

"Author: Dr. Chubai Chen and Dr. Sunmoon Yu" at end · External source: Author: Dr. Chubai Chen and Dr. Sunmoon Yu; Link: Nature Portfolio Chemistry Community. (A group-authored "behind the paper" community post republished on the group site.)

Nature Portfolio Chemistry Community post by Chubai Chen and Sunmoon Yu on their Nature Catalysis work: isotope-labeled 13CH3I + 12CO co-reduction with 1H NMR detection showed ethanol, acetaldehyde, acetic acid, acetone form via asymmetric C–C coupling on Cu; Cu–Ag tandem nanoparticle assembly (Ag = CO generator, Cu = CH3 generator + coupling center); oxygenate rates correlate with co-existence of both intermediates; vision for low-overpotential tandem CO2 electrolysis. Two figures (Fig. 1, Fig. 2) described with captions.

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Berkeley Lab News article on the lead-free ferroelectric halide perovskite CsGeBr3 (Science Advances): single-crystalline CGB nanowires (100–1000 nm) and nanoplates grown via chemical vapor transport; intrinsically polarized (no doping needed); tunable light absorption 1.6–3 eV; quotes from Peidong Yang and co-senior author Ramamoorthy Ramesh (now VP research at Rice); first author Ye Zhang (now postdoc at Northwestern); theorist Sinéad Griffin (Molecular Foundry) via NERSC/Materials Project DFT; ALS X-ray, electron microscopy by Xiaoqing Pan (UC Irvine), electrical measurements by Zhang and Eric Parsonnet; DOE Office of Science support.

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CCEP announcement: CCEP Ventures invests with UC Berkeley / Peidong Yang Group on foundational research to convert captured CO2 into sugar at industrial scale, supporting CCEP's net-zero-by-2040 goal; agricultural ingredients ~quarter of CCEP's carbon footprint; longer-term potential for CO2-to-PET; quotes from Craig Twyford (Head of CCEP Ventures) and Prof. Peidong Yang; notes the group also won a NASA prize for a CO2-to-sugar prototype for long-haul space missions.

Our 2022 group poster is now available for prospective students.

Dr. Yao Yang's latest paper on "Operando Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Studies of Chemical Environment and Interparticle Dynamics of Cu Nanocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction" (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c03662) has been selected as an Advanced Light Source (ALS) Science Brief by a panel of ALS scientists, managers, and communicators. Congratulations! The full article can be accessed here: https://als.lbl.gov/operando-study-of-co2-reduction-by-copper-nanoparticles/.

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BASF news release: California Research Alliance (CARA) by BASF reached 100 research projects since 2014 across 10+ universities; 30+ patent applications, ~70 peer-reviewed articles; BASF and UC Berkeley signed 5-year extension; quotes from Dr. Detlef Kratz (BASF) and Prof. John Hartwig (Berkeley); progress on ligand-free lead-free halide perovskite semiconductor ink guided by Prof. Peidong Yang (Dr. Kerstin Schierle-Arndt quoted); algae-based biodegradable polymers (Mayfield/Burkart, UCSD, $6M DOE grants).

Congratulations! Yao Yang has been awarded the 2022 AC/DC Rising Stars in Analytical Chemistry. Yao will be presenting his works on "Operando Methods for Interfacial Electrocatalysis" in the Analytical Chemistry Diversity Colloquium (AC/DC) seminar series on Wednesday, May 18th, from 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST.

The industry partnership team of California Research Alliance (CARA) by BASF wins the 2022 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award (COSA) awarded by Chancellor Carol T. Christ. Lisette Garcia and Lynne Hollyer are mentioned: The award citation recognized their dedication to CARA's mission, Berkeley's role as a research hub, and a partnership protocol designed as a model for university–industry collaboration. Warmest congratulations! The full list of winners can be accessed here: https://csac.berkeley.edu/2022-cosa-winners

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

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

Congratulations to the following group members for their recent research awards: Ye and Mengyu won the 2021 MRS Graduate Student Awards. The list of the recipients is available here. Stefano won the Gareth Thomas Materials Research Award. The list of the recipients is available here.

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

Congratulations to our own Team SSwEET! We demonstrated abiotic CO2 to sugar conversion and were the only academic lab among industrial scale companies to be named a co-winner of this prize! You can read more in Berkeley News.

Congratulations! Andy has been selected by Chemistry department to receive the 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. The list of Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award recipients is available at here.

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

Rachel has been selected to receive a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). The list of Fellow candidates and Honorable Mention recipients is available at here.

Our 2021 group poster and lab tour video for prospective students are shown below! Research Poster Lab Tour Video More clear look at the research poster

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

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which was founded in 1848 and is the world's largest general scientific society, announced that 489 of its members, among them eight scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have been named Fellows. A full introduction can be found on the Berkeley Lab News and Berkeley News!

Stefano has been selected to be one of the 25 outstanding young scientists and winner of the Green Talents Competition 2020. Congratulations! His work on artificial photosynthesis is also introduced on the Green Talents website!

Prof. Peidong Yang has been recognized as one of the three laureates of the 2020 Global Energy Prize for pioneering invention of nanoparticle based solar cell and artificial photosynthesis! This year's geography of applications for the Prize's shortlist has considerably expanded – 78 scientists from 20 countries were put forward. In 2019, only 39 scholars from 12 countries took part in the Prize's nomination cycle. Since 2003, 42 researchers have become the Global Energy Prize laureates representing 15 countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, Ukraine, and the USA.

Yude, Stefano and Ji Min's work on nanowire-bacteria hybrids for CO2 fixation has been reported by Berkeley News, Optics & Photonics News, Popular Mechanics and Cosmos. This work is published online in Joule journal.

Hone, Jia and Joohoon's work on single-crystalline perovskite blue LEDs has been highlighted by Berkeley News. UC Berkeley chemists created a type of halide perovskite crystal that emits blue light, something that has been hard to achieve with the trendy new material. But the researchers also found that these materials are inherently unstable, requiring careful control of temperature and chemical environment to maintain their precise color. (UC Berkeley photo courtesy of Peidong Yang)

Minliang won the 2019 MRS Graduate Student Award.

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A special issue on Nanowires edited by Peidong is published in Chemical Reviews. This special issue comprehensively summarized the progress made over the past 25 years for the nanowire research field. Our group contributed two articles: Nanowires for Photonics; Nanowire Photoelectrochemistry.

A Review article by Mike Ross, et al, titled "Designing Materials for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Recycling" is published in Nature Catalysis.

NASA awarded a total of $250,000 to five teams in the initial phase of the CO2 Conversion Challenge. Our team led by Mike, Stefano, and Yifan is one of the winers [sic]! Congratulations! The purpose of the challenge is to convert carbon dioxide into glucose in order to eventually create sugar-based fuel, food, medicines, adhesives and other products. While sugar-based biomaterials are created on Earth by plants, this is not practical for space missions because of limited resources such as energy, water and crew time. This capability would let future Martian explorers manufacture products using carbon dioxide in the Red Planet's atmosphere.

Yuhong's work on delivery of macromolecules into cells has been reported by Berkeley News. This work is published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Effective January 1, 2019, our PI, Prof. Peidong Yang, assumes the role of Director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI). The Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (Kavli ENSI) at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – leaders in energy research and the measurement and manipulation of matter at the nanoscale – is dedicated to studying how nature manages energy at the nanoscale and to developing entirely new ways to capture, store, and harness energy for the world's growing population.

Clarivate Analytics has released the report "Highly Cited Researchers 2018". Scientists named Highly Cited Researchers are among an elite group recognized for exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. Among 4,058 researchers, Prof. Peidong Yang is named as Highly Cited in three fields (Chemistry, Materials Science, and Physics). Only 24, or 0.6% of Highly Cited Researchers appear in three fields. They are a group remarkable in both output and impact. The high level of performance of these two dozen warrants special recognition as citation superstars.

Hao's work on gold cluster-bacteria photosynthetic biohybrid system has been reported by Physics World. This work has also been reported in College of Chemistry website. [YouTube embed] Video above: When fed gold nanoclusters, the bacterium Moorella thermoacetica is transformed into a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into useful chemicals for solar fuels.

Hao's work on MOF protected bacteria-semiconductor hybrid has been reported in Berkeley News. Just as spacesuits help astronauts survive in inhospitable environments, newly developed "spacesuits" for bacteria allow them to survive in environments that would otherwise kill them.

Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute Thesis Prize Selection Committee has selected Dohyung to receive the 2017-2018 Best Thesis Prize. The prize is given to the student with the outstanding thesis, publication status, strength of supporting letters and relevance of the thesis to the Kavli ENSI mission. Congratulations!

Page presenting Peidong Yang's personal story of scientific discovery. Watch the video on YouTube ↗

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 Assistant Professor. Congratulations! — the URL appears as plain text in the body, not as an anchor link in the extraction.

Chenlu and Fan won the Chinese Oversea Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations!

Dohyung won the MRS Graduate Student Award, congratulations!

"New Smart Windows Darken in the Sun—and Generate Electricity at the Same Time", Jia's work published in Nature Materials has been reported by Science News. This work has also been reported in Huffington Post: "This Tech Could Turn Every Window In Your House Into A Source Of Green Electricity"; In Berkeley News: "Chemists Create Tinted Windows that also Generate Electricity"; And in ABC7 News: "UC Berkeley glass will one day make windows into solar panels".

Dohyung won the Gareth Thomas graduate student award.

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Nigel named 2018 Enrico Fermi Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.

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Kelsey's work reported by Harvard Science Review.

"A New Direction towards Carbon Management", an interview of Dohyung by Chemical Today Magazine.

Chong is named SN 10 for 2017 – ten early- and mid-career scientists who stand out to mentors and peers as people who will make a difference – presented by Science News. Congratulations!

Dohyung's paper in PNAS is reported by LBNL News Center: "Copper Catalyst Yields High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion — Berkeley Lab scientists discover critical role of nanoparticle transformation". This work has also been reported in C&EN: "Copper nanoparticles could help recycle CO2 into fuel — New catalyst converts carbon dioxide to two- and three-carbon compounds".

Mike's work on syngas electrosynthesis in JACS is reported by LBNL News Center: "Scientists Fine-Tune System to Create 'Syngas' from CO2". — note: the quoted LBNL News Center article title carries NO link anchor in the page extraction.

Woochul's work on "ultralow thermal conductivity in all-inorganic halide perovskites" has been highlighted in LBNL News Center, titled "A Semiconductor That Can Beat the Heat". A newly discovered collective rattling effect in a type of crystalline semiconductor blocks most heat transfer while preserving high electrical conductivity – a rare pairing that scientists say could reduce heat buildup in electronic devices and turbine engines, among other possible applications.

Kelsey's work presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington has been reported by BBC News: "Cyborg bacteria deliver green fuel source from sunlight". This work has also been reported by Berkeley News: "Cyborg bacteria turn sunlight into useful chemicals" and also released by ACS: "Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds".