2024 New's Items

Omar Yaghi Receives 2024 Tang Prize

June 18, 2024

The Tang Prize of Taiwan is one of the world’s most renowned awards, andwas awarded for Yaghi's discoveries unlocking essential tools to combat
the climate crisis.

Kavli ENSI Founding Director Paul Alivisatos Awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

June 12, 2024

The Kavli Prizes, from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, recognize groundbreaking science for the discovery and characterization of extra-solar planets and their atmospheres; foundational research integrating synthetic nanoscale materials for biomedical use; and the localization of areas in the brain specialized for face recognition and processing.

Molecular Weaving Makes Polymer Composites Stronger without Compromising Function

March 21, 2024

Yaghi Research Group and collaborators discovered how to leverage both porosity and molecular weaving to make polymer composites stronger, tougher, and more resistant to fracture.

Kwabena Bediako Awarded 2024 Philomathia Prize

March 11, 2024

The Philomathia Prize is intended to recognize exceptional early career faculty members at Berkeley great distinction and promise in their academic field.

The Chemistry of Energy Efficient Electronics

April 2, 2024

Kwabena Bediako is using his expertise in chemistry and physics to design new magnetic and electronic crystals and new ways of storing energy from renewable sources.

10 Years and Beyond: Celebrating the Impact of Kavli ENSI

May 22, 2024

When nanoscience emerged in the 1980s, it soon became one of the most invested research concepts in the 21st century. The size-dependent, performance-enhancing properties of nanomaterials has made them applicable to almost every field of science, leading to advancement in applications ranging from quantum dot TVs to energy conversion and storage applications.

Research Seminar - Prof. Omar Yaghi

May 3, 2024
"How Chemistry Will Solve the Climate Problem, Fast!" How can chemistry swiftly address the climate crisis? Join us as we explore the transformative power of manipulating molecules with precision to create porous materials capable of carbon capture and water harvesting from desert air. Additionally, discover how genAI and ChatGPT expedite material discovery and broaden accessibility in this enlightening seminar. Omar Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, the Founding Director of the Berkeley Global...

Omar Yaghi honored with Fiat Lux Faculty Award

February 23, 2024

Fiat Lux Faculty Awards a faculty member whose extraordinary contributions go above and beyond the call of duty to advance the university’s philanthropic mission and transform its research, teaching, and programs. One award will be given each year.

James Analytis Awarded the 2024 Bakar Prize

March 4, 2024

The Bakar Prize is designed to give a boost to campus innovators as they translate their discoveries into real-world solutions.

Programmable Heisenberg interactions between Floquet qubits

Nguyen LB
Siddiqi I
2024

The trade-off between robustness and tunability is a central challenge in the pursuit of quantum simulation and fault-tolerant quantum computation. In particular, quantum architectures are often designed to achieve high coherence at the expense of tunability. Many current qubit designs have fixed energy levels and consequently limited types of controllable interactions. Here by adiabatically transforming fixed-frequency superconducting circuits into modifiable Floquet qubits, we demonstrate an XXZ Heisenberg interaction with fully adjustable anisotropy. This interaction model can act...