Peidong Yang
· S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy; Professor of ChemistryUniversity of California, Berkeley · Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Active 1992–2026
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About
Peidong Yang received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1997. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, as well as a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He holds the S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair Professorship in Energy. Yang is also the director of the California Research Alliance by BASF and the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute. He is a founding member of the DOE Energy Innovation Hub: Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), where he served as north director for the first two years, and is affiliated faculty of the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP). Yang is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He serves as an executive editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society and is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals including Accounts of Chemical Research and Nano Letters. He founded the Nanoscience subdivision within the American Chemical Society and has co-founded two startups,…
Research topics
- Chemistry
- Nanotechnology
- Materials science
- Inorganic chemistry
- Crystallography
- Artificial Intelligence
- Engineering
- Physics
- Optoelectronics
- Computer Science
Selected publications
State of the Art and Prospects for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals
ACS Nano · 2021 · 1394 citations
Metal-halide perovskites have rapidly emerged as one of the most promising materials of the 21st century, with many exciting properties and great potential for a broad range of applications, from photovoltaics to optoelectronics and photocatalysis. The ease with which metal-halide perovskites can be synthesized in the form of brightly luminescent colloidal nanocrystals, as well as their tunable and intriguing optical and electronic properties, has attracted researchers from different disciplines…
Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction
Nature · 2023 · 770 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingTwo-dimensional halide perovskite lateral epitaxial heterostructures
Nature · 2020 · 458 citations
. Here we report an effective strategy to substantially inhibit in-plane ion diffusion in two-dimensional halide perovskites by incorporating rigid π-conjugated organic ligands. We demonstrate highly stable and tunable lateral epitaxial heterostructures, multiheterostructures and superlattices. Near-atomically sharp interfaces and epitaxial growth are revealed by low-dose aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. Molecular dynamics simulations confirm the reduced het…
Science Advances · 2020 · 129 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingoctahedra tilting and the organic chain disordering, which results in bandgap decrease. This study indicates that careful heat management under LED operation is a key factor to maintain the sharp and intense emission.
Towards a Biomanufactory on Mars
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences · 2021 · 62 citations
A crewed mission to and from Mars may include an exciting array of enabling biotechnologies that leverage inherent mass, power, and volume advantages over traditional abiotic approaches. In this perspective, we articulate the scientific and engineering goals and constraints, along with example systems, that guide the design of a surface biomanufactory. Extending past arguments for exploiting stand-alone elements of biology, we argue for an integrated biomanufacturing plant replete with modules f…
Recent grants
NSF · $500k · 2007–2013
NIH · $525k · 2011
Inorganic Biological Hybrid Systems for Photochemical Biosynthesis
NSF · $390k · 2015–2018
Frequent coauthors
- 204 shared
Gábor A. Somorjai
University of California, Berkeley
- 176 shared
Jianbo Jin
University of California, Berkeley
- 166 shared
Mengyu Gao
First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
- 122 shared
Yi Yu
ShanghaiTech University
- 119 shared
Maria C. Folgueras
- 118 shared
Sunmoon Yu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 108 shared
Susan E. Habas
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- 97 shared
Sheena Louisia
Leiden University
Labs
Research in semiconductor nanowires and their applications in nanophotonics and energy conversion
Awards & honors
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1999)
- 3M Untenured Faculty Award (2000)
- Research Innovation Award (2001)
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2001)
- NSF CAREER Award (2001)
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