Yang Group - UC Berkeley

Student run account for the Peidong Yang group at @UCBerkeley. Small particles, big science.

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

Check out @lihiini's latest News & Views article in @NatureCatalysis highlighting new insights in the dependence of #photosynthetic #biohybrid system charge transfer on crystal #facets and cell density using single-particle #imaging!
https://t.co/oEtMmPJaFk

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

Check out @mfonseca2016, @YuShan_OvO, and Tianle Wang's recent work on resolving #Cu nanograin #catalyst evolution during CO2 electrolysis using #insitu vibrational #spectroscopy techniques!

https://t.co/D3DQ6Al9pn

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

Congratulations to our 12 graduates this year, as well as those who received awards:

@mfonseca2016: 2026 OGSI Award, BIDMaP Postdoc fellowship
@YuxinJiang826: Stanford Science Postdoc Fellowship
Anna Chen: 2026 Senior Undergraduate Research Award
Anna Chen, Skye Leng: NSF GRF

[NanogeConferences @nanoGe_Conf]

🚀 Launching the final day of #MATSUS26 with a high-impact plenary session!

🌞 Prof. Peidong Yang shows how sunlight, H₂O, and CO₂ can be turned into fuels, chemicals, and materials via nanowire photochemical diodes and photosynthetic biohybrids.

🔗 https://t.co/gxqgIMxQaW

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

[College of Chemistry @UCB_Chemistry]

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Omar Yaghi was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry today! Yaghi first synthesized a new class of porous materials that holds enormous promise for many applications. @UCBerkeley @NobelPrize https://t.co/0t3osKZNrT

[Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab]

🏅 Former Berkeley Lab senior scientist John Clarke has been awarded the 2025 @NobelPrize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling in an electric circuit. His work paved the way for quantum computing and sensing. https://t.co/KpIu9yXIqA

[Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab]

DYK that nearly 20 years ago, Berkeley Lab scientists showed a novel way to build advanced transistors decades before similar structures reached smartphones? @UCBerkeley https://t.co/yUAMbO8jfj

[LIGHT_CONVERSION @light_con]

@yanggroupucb at the @UCBerkeley was among the first to use @light_con's #HARPIA-LIGHT tabletop #spectroscopy #system in their #ultrafast research.

Explore the three distinct research stories:
https://t.co/PeqFIx4ijG

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

Historical picture of the first nanowire GAA-FET and the graduate students at the time (2005), Joshua Goldberger (prof at Ohio State) and @RongFan8 (prof at Yale University). Allon Hochbaum (prof at UC Irvine) was not in the photo.

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

As the microelectronics industry moves to adopt gate-all-around transistor designs in next-generation smartphones, our groundbreaking research demonstrated an innovative approach to creating these advanced structures nearly 20 years ago. https://t.co/PL9FNBdeg4

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

The “gate-all-around” design enhances control over the transistor channel, leading to better performance and lower power consumption. Our early bottom-up approach showed the potential of this geometry using chemical synthesis to achieve these complex structures.

[Yao Yang @YaoYang639]

Watching nanocatalysts in action. Our work is featured as a Cover Story with the Peidong Yang group at Berkeley, Manos Mavrikakis group at UW Madison, Yimo Han group at Rice, and Zhu Chen group at UMass @yanggroupucb @valentinbriega @han_yimo

https://t.co/5Z5pJO6wG8

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

Also, read the News & Views highlight here! https://t.co/V0UzLjizkD

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

Our latest work by @YaoYang639, @FeijooJu, Marc (Mavrikakis group at UW Madison), and @ChenChubai on #operando probing dynamic migration of copper carbonyl during #electrocatalytic CO2 reduction is finally out in @NatureCatalysis! https://t.co/YHlSstvIog

[Virgil Andrei @Virgil__Andrei]

It was great to showcase our latest work on #perovskite photoelectrocatalysis for solar-driven chemistry during the @RSC__CNN Early Career Symposium at @UCLChemistry! Thank you to @ChemistClancy and all organizers! ☀️

@yanggroupucb @ReisnerLab @ChemCambridge @EnergyCambridge

[Yang Group - UC Berkeley @yanggroupucb]

Check out Alex's work in exploring the structural origins of optically efficient 1D lead halide #perovskite #nanostructures https://t.co/EfvePGhcq1

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

Stabilizing Ru in Multicomponent Alloy as Acidic Oxygen Evolution Catalysts with Machine Learning-Enabled Structural Insights and Screening | Journal of the American Chemical Society @yanggroupucb @UCB_Chemistry @UCBerkeley @KavliENSI https://t.co/2pLrwyWWC2

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

Exploring the Structural Origins of Optically Efficient One-Dimensional Lead Halide Perovskite Nanostructures | Journal of the American Chemical Society @yanggroupucb
@UCB_Chemistry
@UCBerkeley
@KavliENSI https://t.co/PCGOArxGtt