Annual prize from NSF recognizes outstanding young individual who is revolutionizing research
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In a relatively short time, Yang has created one of the nation's leading laboratories for the study of nanowires. Like nanotubes, nanowires are filaments only molecules wide with nearly miraculous properties, yet nanowires lack a hollow core and are proving generally easier to create and manipulate. Yang's research team has developed novel, efficient ways to create particularly sophisticated nanowires and complex nanowire arrays.
"Nanowires represent a rich family of functional materials," said Yang. "It is now possible to design and synthesize nanowires with quite complex structures based on progress made in the past couple of years. This type of control in nanostructural engineering has generated a rich collection of fascinating properties and functionalities, including nanoscale lasers, nanowire-based transistors, sensors and solar cells. These nanowire materials will have a particularly significant impact in areas such as energy conversion and solid state lighting."
Peidong Yang was born and raised in the Chinese city of Suzhou, leaving to study chemistry at the University of science and Technology of China in Hefei in 1988. Earning his Ph.D. degeree from Harvard in 1997, Yang then traveled to UC, Santa Barbara in 1997, and arrived at UC-Berkeley in 1999. In a short time, Yang has established himself as a rising star, publishing widely and receiving such awards as the NSF Young Investigator Award, the Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, the MRS Young Investigator Award, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, and the American Chemical Society's Pure Chemistry Award.
Following the award ceremony at the U.S. State Department on May 14th, NSF will host Yang and a distinguished panel on May 15th in a teleconference for journalists on emerging nanotechnologies. The program will highlight laboratory developments poised to become marketable products in the future. Information is available in the On the Nano Horizon: Emerging Technologies media advisory.
In addition to his Waterman award, Yang has received support from NSF through grants 0352750 and 0092086, as head graduate advisor for the Graduate Group in Nanoscale Science and Engineering through NSF IGERT grant 0333455 and as co-principal investigator for the NSF Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. -NSF-
Peidong Yang Department of ChemistryDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of California, Berkeley(510) 643-1545 cchem.berkeley.edu/~pdygrp/
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. Following postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Yang joined the faculty in the department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999.
Currently associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, he is also the deputy director for the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems. Yang also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
In addition to the 2007 NSF Waterman Award, Yang has received the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, the MRS Young Investigator Award, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, and the ACS Pure Chemistry Award. Yang's main research interests focus on one-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and their applications in nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, energy conversion and nanofluidics.
Contact: Josh Chamot jchamot@nsf.gov 703-292-7730 National Science Foundation
Program Contacts Jimmy Hsia, NSF (703) 292-7020 jhsia@nsf.gov David L. Nelson, NSF (703) 292-4932 dnelson@nsf.gov Mayra N. Montrose, NSF (703) 292-4757 mmontros@nsf.gov
Principal Investigators Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley (510) 643-1545 p_yang@uclink.berkeley.edu
Related WebsitesFact Sheet: Alan T. Waterman Award: nsf.gov/news/news_summ
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