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, Nanosys Inc. and Alphabet Energy Inc. His research primarily focuses on semiconductor nanowires and their applications in nanophotonics and energy conversion. Throughout his career, Yang has received numerous prestigious awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, Global Energy Prize, E. O. Lawrence Award, Alan T. Waterman Award, MRS Medal, Baekeland Medal, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, ACS Nanoscience Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, MRS Young Investigator Award, and ACS Pure Chemistry Award. According to ISI (Thomson Reuters), he was ranked No. 1 in materials science and No. 10 in chemistry from 2002 to 2012 based on average citations per paper and was named the 2014 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate for Physics.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Nanotechnology
• Materials science
• Inorganic chemistry
• Crystallography
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engineering
• Physics
• Optoelectronics
• Computer Science
• Astrobiology
• Optics
• Systems engineering
• Biology
• Biotechnology

Selected publications

• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep: v0.3.10

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-04-11

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  Full Changelog: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/compare/v0.3.9...v0.3.10

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• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep: v0.3.4

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-04-04

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  Reviewer difficulty levels (medium/hard/nightmare), Modal serverless GPU, Codex Plugin deep integration, Zenodo DOI

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• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep: v0.3.4

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-04-07

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  Full Changelog: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/compare/v0.3.3...v0.3.4

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• Gate-All-Around Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors: A Historical Perspective

  Nano Letters · 2026-04-13

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  The development of transistor architectures, evolving from 2D planar metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) to FinFETs and then to gate-all-around nanowire (GAANW) FETs, plays a crucial role in downscaling technology nodes in the semiconductor industry. This perspective reviews the concept of MOSFETs and summarizes this historical development with particular emphasis on GAANW transistors due to their importance in next-generation technology for nodes below 3 nm. Specifically, the concept of GAANW transistors and their advantages over planar and FinFET devices for further scaling are presented, along with a discussion of their transition from early conceptual ideas to laboratory demonstrations and, ultimately, industrial adoption. Furthermore, potential solutions, such as complementary FETs (CFETs) and 2D semiconductor-based FETs, and their associated challenges for the future generation, known as the Angstrom Era, are discussed in a technological roadmap. This perspective may inspire both industry and academia in future research directions for realizing the Angstrom Era.

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• Ultrasound-assisted deep eutectic solvent extraction and bioactivity evaluation of phenolic compounds from white birch bark

  Industrial Crops and Products · 2026-02-12 · 1 citations

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  White birch bark, a byproduct of the construction and paper industries, is an underexploited resource rich in bioactive phenolic compounds. Despite the well-documented pharmacological properties of terpenoids in birch bark, phenolic compounds remain insufficiently studied, particularly regarding efficient extraction methods. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are eutectic mixtures formed through hydrogen bonding and other interactions between two or more components, demonstrating great potential in the extraction of active ingredients. Hence, this study optimized the ultrasound-assisted (UA) combined with DESs extraction (UADESs) of total phenols (TTP) from white birch bark. The results showed that the optimum DESs was a mixture of choline chloride and glycolic acid (molar ratio 1:2) with 10 % water. The optimal UADESs conditions (extraction temperature 56.05°C, extraction time 16.01 min, ultrasonic power 423.5 W, material-liquid ratio 1:51.49 g/ mL) yielded 29.17 mg/g TTP, surpassing traditional ethanol and ultrasonic methods by 2.27 and 1.38-fold, respectively. UPLC-MS/MS identified 14 phenolic compounds. The extracts by UADESs exhibited superior antioxidant, antimicrobial, and hypoglycemic activities. These findings highlight the potential of UADESs for valorizing birch bark waste into high-value bioactive compounds, providing an environmentally friendly approach for applications in the pharmaceutical and food industries. • Birch bark, an industrial byproduct, is a rich source of bioactive compounds. • DESs-based extraction enhanced phenol yield by up to 2.27 and 1.38 fold compared to conventional methods. • The extracts showed potent antioxidant, antimicrobial, and hypoglycemic activities. • Low-toxicity DESs extraction offers an eco-friendly alternative to traditional organic solvents.

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• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep: v0.3.11

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-04-13

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  Full Changelog: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/compare/v0.3.10...v0.3.11

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• From hazardous red mud to hard magnetic ferrite material: A comparative study between Ba and Sr ferrites

  Ceramics International · 2026-03-23

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• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep: v0.3.8

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-04-09

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  Full Changelog: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/compare/v0.3.7...v0.3.8

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• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep: v0.3.6

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-04-08

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  Full Changelog: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/compare/v0.3.5...v0.3.6

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• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep: v0.3.9

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-04-11

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  Full Changelog: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/compare/v0.3.8...v0.3.9

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Recent grants

• Alan T. Waterman Award

  NSF · $500k · 2007–2013

• NIH Grant R21EB007474

  NIH · $525k · 2011

• Inorganic Biological Hybrid Systems for Photochemical Biosynthesis

  NSF · $390k · 2015–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Gábor A. Somorjai

  University of California, Berkeley

  204 shared

• Jianbo Jin

  University of California, Berkeley

  176 shared

• Mengyu Gao

  First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

  166 shared

• Yi Yu

  ShanghaiTech University

  122 shared

• Maria C. Folgueras

  119 shared

• Sunmoon Yu

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  118 shared

• Susan E. Habas

  National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  108 shared

• Sheena Louisia

  Leiden University

  97 shared

Labs

• Peidong Yang GroupPI

  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)