Nanotechnology

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

April 22, 2025
Chemical Engineer Markita del Carpio Landry and Philosopher Hannah Ginsborg have been awarded one of the highest intellectual honors on North American academics and creatives.

Holding heat in place: stabilizing spin textures in quantum materials

April 17, 2025
A new quantum mechanical spin study from the Ajoy Lab published in Science Advances.

Yaghi wins Mustafa Scientific Prize

January 5, 2016

Omar Yahgi. Photo by Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer

Photo courtesy Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer.

Chemistry professor Omar Yaghi has won an inaugural Mustafa Scientific Prize, awarded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states. The award ceremony was...

Scientists uncover a process that stands in the way of making quantum dots brighter

March 26, 2021
Bright semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots give QLED TV screens their vibrant colors. But attempts to increase the intensity of that light generate heat instead, reducing the dots’ light-producing efficiency. A new study explains why.

An electronic crystal turned flat

February 18, 2022
In an exciting new study in Nature Communications, a global team co-led by UC Berkeley professor Michael Zuerch, Shanghai Jiao Tong University professors Dao Xiang and Jie Zhang, and UC Los Angeles professor Anshul Kogar, have discovered unexpected phenomenon in an electronic analogue of ice crystals.

Berkeley’s ecosystem of innovation, entrepreneurship combats climate change

May 16, 2024
UC Berkeley faculty are fast-tracking the development of new and creative climate solutions.

Unlocking the potential of quantum dots

October 29, 2024
A groundbreaking technique opens a new world of materials for researchers growing nanocrystals.

With a little help, new optical material assembles itself

February 4, 2022

Nanocircles

Using 3D STEM (scanning transmission electron microscope) tomography at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, Ting Xu and her team mapped out the precise placement of nanoparticles in a self-assembling material. (Courtesy of ACS Nano)

A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has demonstrated tiny concentric nanocircles that self-assemble into an...

Nano-sized sensors learn new biological tricks

September 23, 2020

fluorophore labeled DNA

Rebecca Pinals mixes SWNTs with fluorophore-labeled DNA to create a nanosensor, then measures their optical response as they interact with biomolecules. (Photo credit: Rebecca Pinals).

In spite of the tremendous advances in modern medicine, there are still mysteries about routine processes in the human body that continue to elude scientists. For example, researchers have...

Building the Materials for Next-Gen Tech

February 13, 2023
Using chemistry-based approaches to creating graphene nanoribbons, Fischer’s lab group has developed ways to integrate other kinds of atoms (like nitrogen) into the nanoribbons to give them new properties.