Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI)
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Researchers at the Kavli ENSI aim to be part of creating powerful new approaches to energy conversion, utilization and efficiency.
Berkeley, CA
Joined July 2020
Congratulations to UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi, who shares the 2025 @NobelPrize in #Chemistry for helping create a field called reticular chemistry.
news.berkeley.edu
Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.
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🌿 What if a leaf could do more than photosynthesize? This artificial leaf uses copper nanoflowers + perovskite crystals to turn CO₂ into C₂—used in plastics, jet fuel & more. Built on 20+ yrs of collaboration science. @molecularfndry @Caltech
https://t.co/eadnXhceQS
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Researchers built a device made of perovskite and copper that mimics a green leaf.
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In 1996, it took Kristin Perrson a whole year to calculate some properties of tungsten. Thanks to big data and machine learning, that same task now takes seconds. Find out how her work @BerkeleyLab made that advance possible: https://t.co/UhoInG0qQH
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New study led by our researchers outlines a way to engineer pseudo-bonds in materials. Instead of forming chemical bonds, which is what makes epoxies and other composites so tough, the chains of molecules entangle in a way that is fully reversible. https://t.co/bon8rpORR4
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Thrilled that our study on #perovskite-driven solar #hydrocarbon synthesis is now out in @NatureCatalysis! 🎉 Very grateful to @yanggroupucb and Winton-@KavliENSI Exchange Programme for all support! https://t.co/W6nwppIgIM
@UCB_Chemistry @BerkeleyLab @ChemCambridge @stjohnscam
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New from @KavliENSI and colleagues: Copper nanoflowers enable solar-driven hydrocarbon synthesis from waste and sunlight! A step toward sustainable fuels and chemicals. #Perovskite #Sustainability #GreenChemistry #KavliNano
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First author @Virgil__Andrei has a blog post on @SpringerNature describing the story behind the science -- and his research visit to collaborate with @KavliENSI and @yanggroupucb.
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Photoelectrochemical hydrocarbon synthesis is challenging due to high catalytic overpotentials and insufficient semiconductor photovoltage. Here, we obtain ethane and ethylene by interfacing lead...
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The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that three Berkeley Engineering faculty members — Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer — have been elected. The number of engineering faculty members in the NAE is now 73.
engineering.berkeley.edu
Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer elected to the esteemed organization
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Congratulations to the founding director of Kavli ENSI Paul Alivisatos, recipient of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award! https://t.co/YBLfEtuf3k
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Scientists Capture Images of Electron Molecular Crystals From top left: Scanning tunneling microscope images of electrons evolving into a single Wigner molecule (bottom right). Credit: Berkeley Lab https://t.co/zUYdCpDjqw
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Congratulations to Cheng Zhu who was awarded the 2023-2024 Kavli Thesis Prize. Nominations were reviewed based on the quality of the work, publication status, strength of supporting letters, and relevance of the thesis to the Kavli ENSI mission.
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“There are many ways to generate power with renewable energy, but the importance lies in how you store it,” says researcher Han-Ming Hau. Read the latest on how manganese could help boost lithium-ion #batteries. @molecularfndry @BerkeleyLabETA @PopSci
https://t.co/VbCiHR9qsY
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Manganese is earth-abundant and cheap. A new process could help make it a contender to replace nickel and cobalt in batteries.
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Tsu-Jae King Liu Nominated to be Next National Academy of Engineering President https://t.co/vvcyfbDDYU
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Omar Yaghi has been awarded the 2024 Balzan Prize for Nanoporous Materials for Environmental Applications
Omar Yaghi is the 2024 Balzan Prize for Nanoporous Materials for Environmental Applications for groundbreaking contributions to the discovery and development of nanoporous framework materials, and advancing their applications in carbon capture and hydrogen storage. #balzanprize
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Congratulations to the 2024 Kavli ENSI Fellowship Recipients! https://t.co/roJrbkbm80
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