American chemist
Peidong Yang (simplified Chinese : 杨培东 ; traditional Chinese : 楊培東 ; pinyin : Yáng Peídōng ; born 1971) is a Chinese–American chemist, material scientist, and businessman. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley (since 1999) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He is a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science .[1] [2] His research group studies the synthesis of nanomaterials and their electronic and optical properties. He is also a Department Head at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis,[3] Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ,[4] and Deputy Director of the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS).[5] He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society , an American Chemical Society Journal.
Biography
Yang received a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993. For his graduate studies, he worked with Charles M. Lieber at Harvard University , and in 1997, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemistry. He was a post-doctoral fellow with Galen D. Stucky at University of California, Santa Barbara from 1997–1999, until being hired as an assistant professor in chemistry at University of California, Berkeley , where he was granted tenure in 2004.
Career
Yang is well known for his work in nanostructure synthesis and characterization, having co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles. One of his most notable papers, "Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers", was published in Science in 2001 and has received over 5000 citations.[6] In 2010, Yang was ranked as the top materials scientist and among the top 10 chemists of the decade 2000-2010 by Thomson Reuters , in order of citation impact.[7] As one of the leaders of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub awarded in 2010, he is coordinating efforts to develop materials that use sunlight to convert water to fuel.[8] Since coming to Berkeley, Yang has mentored over 30 graduate students and over 30 postdoctoral researchers.
Business ventures
He was a founding member of the scientific advisory board at Nanosys , a nanomaterials company, and he is also the founder of Alphabet Energy with Matthew L. Scullin .[9] He lives with his wife, Mei, and their daughter, Rachel.
Awards
References
^ "Welcome to the P. Yang Group" . The Peidong Yang Group. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Chemistry Faculty: Peidong Yang" . University of California, Berkeley Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis" . Solarfuelshub.org. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" . Lbl.gov. 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems" . Susanb.physics.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ Huang, M. H. (June 2001). "Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers" . Science . 292 (5523): 1897–1899. Bibcode :2001Sci...292.1897H . doi :10.1126/science.1060367 . PMID 11397941 . S2CID 4283353 .
^ "Top 100 Materials Scientists" . Science Watch. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "California Team to Receive up to $122 Million for Energy Innovation Hub to Develop Method to Produce Fuels from Sunlight" . Department of Energy. July 22, 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Alphabet Energy. Thermoelectrics for waste heat recovery" . Alphabetenergy.com. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Sloan Research Fellowships" . The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Peidong Yang" . Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation . Retrieved 1 August 2018 .
^ "2003 Young Innovators Under 35" . Technology Review . 2003. Retrieved August 15, 2011 .
^ "All Miller Professors, Sorted by Name" . Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science. Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-07-30 .
^ "Peidong Yang" .
^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected , News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences , May 3, 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14 .
^ "Announcement of the 2020 Global Energy Prize laureates" (Press release).
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