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  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
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  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - MRS Medal, Materials Research Society For outstanding contributions in the creative synthesis and assembly of semiconductor nanowires and their heterostructures, and innovations in nanowire-based photonics, thermoelectrics, solar energy conversion and nanofluidic applications
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2007 - National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Chemistry
  • 2005 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2001 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Peidong Yang is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Materials Science and Engineering, with a substantial focus on Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering as notable subfields.

Their recent publications include diverse topics ranging from nanocrystals to catalysis. Noteworthy papers are:

  • State of the Art and Prospects for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals (2021, ACS Nano)
  • Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction (2023, Nature)
  • Two-dimensional halide perovskite lateral epitaxial heterostructures (2020, Nature)
  • Cu-Ag Tandem Catalysts for High-Rate CO2 Electrolysis toward Multicarbons (2020, Joule)
  • Photosynthetic semiconductor biohybrids for solar-driven biocatalysis (2020, Nature Catalysis)

Their main research topics include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography

Frequent co-authors in their work are Jianbo Jin, Maria C. Folgueras, Mengyu Gao, Sunmoon Yu, and Chubai Chen. These collaborations appear across a considerable number of publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Yang's research outputs have been published in recurrent venues including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nano Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Catalysis

Peidong Yang has received multiple awards recognising their contributions to science. These include membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Materials Research Society, and the MacArthur Foundation. Other distinctions include the MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society in 2011 for work related to semiconductor nanowires and associated technologies, and the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award in 2007 for Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • ROOM-TEMPERATURE ULTRAVIOLET NANOWIRE NANOLASERS

    Michael H. Huang;Samuel Mao;Henning Feick;Haoquan Yan

  • One‐Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

    Younan Xia;Peidong Yang;Yugang Sun;Yiying Wu

  • Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells

    Matt Law;Lori E. Greene;Lori E. Greene;Justin C. Johnson;Richard Saykally

  • Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires

    Allon I. Hochbaum;Renkun Chen;Raul Diaz Delgado;Wenjie Liang

  • Catalytic Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanowires by Vapor Transport

    Michael H. Huang;Yiying Wu;Henning Feick;Ngan Tran

  • Generalized syntheses of large-pore mesoporous metal oxides with semicrystalline frameworks

    Peidong Yang;Dongyuan Zhao;David I. Margolese;Bradley F. Chmelka

  • Highly Crystalline Multimetallic Nanoframes with Three-Dimensional Electrocatalytic Surfaces

    Chen Chen;Yijin Kang;Ziyang Huo;Ziyang Huo;Zhongwei Zhu;Zhongwei Zhu

  • Nanowire ultraviolet photodetectors and optical switches

    Hannes Kind;Haoquan Yan;Benjamin Messer;Matthew Law

  • Shape Control of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals

    Andrea R. Tao;Susan Habas;Peidong Yang

  • Light Trapping in Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells

    Erik Garnett;Peidong Yang

  • Janus monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

    Ang Yu Lu;Hanyu Zhu;Jun Xiao;Chih Piao Chuu

  • Covalent organic frameworks comprising cobalt porphyrins for catalytic CO2 reduction in water

    Song-Chow Lin;Song-Chow Lin;Christian S Diercks;Christian S Diercks;Yue-Biao Zhang;Yue-Biao Zhang;Yue-Biao Zhang;Nikolay Kornienko

  • Controlled growth of ZnO nanowires and their optical properties

    P. Yang;H. Yan;S. Mao;R. Russo

  • Thermal conductivity of individual silicon nanowires

    Deyu Li;Yiying Wu;Philip Kim;Li Shi

  • Low-temperature wafer-scale production of ZnO nanowire arrays.

    Lori E. Greene;Matt Law;Joshua Goldberger;Franklin Kim

  • SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES AND NANOTUBES

    Matt Law;Joshua Goldberger;Peidong Yang

  • General Route to Vertical ZnO Nanowire Arrays Using Textured ZnO Seeds

    Lori E. Greene;Matt Law;Dawud H. Tan;Max Montano

  • Langmuir-Blodgett Silver Nanowire Monolayers for Molecular Sensing Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

    Andrea Tao;Franklin Kim;Christian Hess;Joshua Goldberger

  • Semiconductor nanowires for energy conversion.

    Allon I Hochbaum;Peidong Yang

  • Thermally stable Pt/mesoporous silica core–shell nanocatalysts for high-temperature reactions

    Sang Hoon Joo;Jeong Young Park;Chia-Kuang Tsung;Yusuke Yamada

  • Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Rough Silicon Nanowires

    Renkun Chen;Allon I. Hochbaum;Raul Diaz Delgado;Wenjie Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Yu
Yi Yu ShanghaiTech University
Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Chong Liu
Chong Liu University of California, Los Angeles
Yiying Wu
Yiying Wu The Ohio State University
Matt Law
Matt Law University of California, Irvine
Rong Fan
Rong Fan Yale University
Letian Dou
Letian Dou Purdue University West Lafayette
Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar Stanford University
Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Bradley F. Chmelka
Bradley F. Chmelka University of California, Santa Barbara

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