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Congratulations to Cheng for being awarded the 2023-2024 Kavli ENSI Philomathia Graduate Student Fellowship!

December 17, 2022

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

Congratulations to Stefano for being awarded the 2022 Kavli ENSI Thesis Prize!

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 …

Our Work on Bio-analogous Asymmetric C-C Coupling in Tandem CO2 Electroreduction is Featured in Berkeley Lab News!

November 29, 2022

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

Congratulations to Maria for winning the Best Presentation Award at the Gareth Thomas Materials Symposium at UCSD!

November 23, 2022

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

Bacteria do asymmetric coupling in CO2 fixation, but can inorganic catalysts do it?

September 29, 2022

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

Our Work on CsGeBr3 (CGB)–A Ferroelectric Lead-free Halide Perovskite Material–is Featured in Berkeley Lab’s News Center!

September 1, 2022

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

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) and Peidong Yang Group to Develop Technology Converting Air to Sugar

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 …

2022 Yang Group Research Poster is Now Available

August 12, 2022

Our 2022 group poster is now available for prospective students.

Our Paper is Featured in ALS Science Brief!

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 …

California Research Alliance by BASF Activates 100 Research Projects to Address Key Sustainability Challenges

May 12, 2022

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

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