Kavli ENSI hosted a six-day joint workshops from July 16-20, 2017, at the Inn at the Tides in Bodega Bay. The workshop was between the Nano Doctoral Training Center (NANODTC) at The University of Cambridge and the Kavli ENSI. The aim of this conference is to encourage interaction on the themes of NANODTC and Kavli ENSI, by bringing a team of researchers from NANODTC and Berkeley for one week, in order to...
Materials scientist and former Lab Director Paul Alivisatos, along with four other researchers, is being recognized for “extraordinary scientific achievements in physical science and engineering.” A nanotechnology pioneer, Alivisatos’ research has had important ramifications for the development of renewable energy, biomedical imaging, and light-emitting devices. More>
The Spiers Memorial Award is awarded in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the chemical sciences. Award winners are evaluated for the originality and impact of their research as well as the quality of the results. The award also recognises the importance of teamwork across the chemical sciences and the abilities of individuals to develop successful collaborations.
Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry. He is also the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute and co-director of both the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute and the...
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch, Director of the NSF Center for Energy Efficiency Electronics Science headquartered at Berkeley, will receive the William Cherry Award in recognition of his many contributions to solar cell device physics and technology.
Although Yablonovitch has worked in a variety of pure and applied fields, his first love has always been Photovoltaics, which he regards as part of the same double-heterostructure family as LED’s and semiconductor lasers. In his photovoltaic research, he introduced the 4(n squared) (“Yablonovitch Limit...
Jeffrey B. Neaton has been appointed Associate Laboratory Director for the Energy Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The announcement follows an international search led by committee chair Horst Simon, Deputy Director for Research.
Neaton is the Director of the Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Nanoscale Science Research Center at Berkeley Lab. He joined the Molecular Foundry as a postdoctoral scholar in 2003, prior to the construction of the building. Throughout his career at the Molecular Foundry, Neaton has been an integral member of the...
Professor Omar M. Yaghi, has been selected as the winner of the ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science and Professor Russell Hartenberger, will be awarded with the LEONARDO DA VINCI World Award of Arts.
Professor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, USA, has been selected as the winner of the 2017 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science.
The prize is awarded for his ground-breaking scientific contributions in making materials by stitching organic and inorganic units through strong bonds into robust,...
There are three levels of Awards IEEE Medals, IEEE Technical Field Awards and IEEE Recognitions. The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest-level award in the portfolio. IEEE Recognitions include Service Awards, Corporate Recognition, Young Professional Award, Staff Award, and Honorary Membership. Each of the categories below will provide a list of awards, criteria and scope, deadline information, and a link to the nomination form.
The award recipient statistics will provide an overview of the number of nominations received per year and region. A list of all Award Recipients can be viewed...
Xiang Zhang, a senior faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division, has been appointed the 16th president and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. The five-year appointment was announced Dec. 15 by the University of Hong Kong. Zhang served as director of the Materials Sciences Division from 2014 to 2016, and is currently the Ernest Kuh Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, and the director of the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and...
SO MANY OF THE THINGS NATURE DOES effortlessly, such as using the Sun’s light to fuel growing plants, have been virtually impossible for chemists to emulate. But now, they have a tool that is helping them harness the same type of complex chemistry found in nature and design new kinds of structures virtually at will.
The secret is a type of nanoscale cage called a metal-organic framework and its purely organic counterpart, a covalent organic framework. They are like crystals built from Tinker Toys, with metal- or carbon-based hubs connected by rod-like molecules. What makes...
