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Profile of Peidong Yang Paul Gabrielsen, Science Writer PROFILE PROFILE Profile of Peidong Yang Paul Gabrielsen, Science Writer In the fall of 2015, Peidong Yang, professor of chemistry chemistry and materials engineering that con- at the University of California, Berkeley, received a tinues today. phone call from the MacArthur Foundation. The caller asked if Yang was alone. Having just finished his lunch, Opening a New Field at Harvard Yang hurried to his office. The caller identified himself as Yang applied to dozens of graduate schools in the the director of the Foundation, and told Yang of his United States. Ironically, the first to reject his application selection for a MacArthur fellowship. was the University of California, Berkeley, although six The grant recognized Yang’s pioneering work in schools eventually offered him admission. Yang chose developing semiconductor nanowires, which are small Harvard University, in part because Charles Lieber, a filaments with tunable optical and physical properties. chemist who would become Yang’sgraduateadvisor, By the time of the MacArthur grant, Yang, who was was a member of the faculty. At the time, in 1993, Lieber elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, was studying high-temperature superconductors, had already made advances in nanowire photon- but that line of research was winding down in favor ics, including nanoscale lasers. Shortly thereafter, he of the emerging field of nanochemistry. Many of and his group showed how nanowires could contrib- Lieber’s students were working on buckminsterful- ute to a zero-carbon energy future by mimicking one lerene (60-carbon spheres) and carbon nanotubes, of biology’s basic processes: photosynthesis. both structures made from one-atom-thick sheets of carbon. Education in China Lieber and Yang chose a different tack. If carbon Yang was born in 1971 in Suzhou, China, a city called atoms can form such structures, they mused, what about “the Venice of the East” because of its many canals. The other elements on the periodic table? Their experi- child of a doctor and a teacher, Yang and his two older ments led to the development of semiconductor siblings were raised in a culture that placed high value nanowires. “The moment you make the semiconductor on education. In a secondary education system that into this filament,” Yang says, “their chemical properties Yang describes as examination-heavy, he excelled in and physical properties change. That’s what we were chemistry and mathematics. Praised by his teachers chasing after.” for his scores, Yang chose chemistry as a major when, Yang and Lieber’s work helped launch a new field in 1988, he entered the Uni- of nanoscience as other groups also experimented versity of Science and Tech- with nanowires, nanorods, and nanowhiskers. Nanowires nology of China in Hefei, 200 are typically between 1 and 100 nanometers in diameter, miles from Suzhou. 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. In electron mi- As a second-year undergrad- croscope images, nanowires made from various mate- uate, Yang joined the laboratory rials, including silicon, oxides, and nitrides, look variously of Yitai Qian, who studied high- like needles, strands of hair, or shag carpets. temperature superconductors. Yang and Lieber began by growing nanowires of “I was fascinated with the solid- magnesium oxide inside copper oxide superconductors state materials chemistry of (1) to enhance the critical current densities of the su- these high-T superconductors,” perconductors. The pair was granted a patent for metal Yang says. “You can mix com- oxide nanorods in 1999 (2), and by the time Yang pounds and make new crystals graduated from Harvard, he and Lieber had successfully and new compositions and get grown junctions between silicon nanowires and carbon a higher transition temperature nanotubes (3). for the superconductor state.” Inspired by Lieber’s creativity and drive to pursue His years in Qian’s laboratory set new ideas, Yang chose to pause his nanowire research ’ Peidong Yang. Image courtesy of Peidong the course for Yang sownre- for his postdoctoral fellowship and spend some time in a Yang. search program in solid-state completely unrelated field. Yang joined the laboratory This is a Profile of a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences to accompany the member’s Inaugural Article on page 7216 in issue 28 of volume 114. 8908–8910 | PNAS | August 22, 2017 | vol. 114 | no. 34 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1712627114 Downloaded by guest on September 23, 2021 of Galen Stucky at the University of California, Santa could recycle waste heat from many industrial pro- Barbara, where Stucky was working on self-assembly of cesses into electricity. porous materials in solution. With fellow postdoctoral The practically 1D nature of nanowires can control scholar Dongyuan Zhao, Yang developed high surface the transport of heat and electricity within a material, area materials SBA-15 and SBA-16, which are now and in the hands of Yang’s laboratory members nano- classified as mesoporous materials, or silica structures wires achieved improved efficiency over previous bis- with pores between 2 and 50 nanometers in diameter. muth telluride thermoelectric generators. In 2009 Yang Although Yang’s postdoctoral fellowship only lasted and former thermoelectric project team member Matt 16 months, he and his colleagues published several Scullin launched Alphabet Energy to market nanowire- papers in Nature (4) and Science (5) on their new ma- based thermoelectric generators. Scullin is the CEO of terials. “It’s quite amazing,” Yang says of his research the company, which now sells several thermoelectric output in a relatively brief time. “It’s partially because at products that can recover up to 2.5% of the electricity that time the topic was very exciting.” available from waste heat. The generators are con- nected to exhaust flows in factories, oil fields, and other Berkeley at Last industrial processes and use the heat from the exhaust Both Lieber and Stucky encouraged Yang to begin ap- to produce electricity. This zero-emissions energy off- plying for faculty positions after a year at the University sets the power required by the process, reducing elec- of California, Santa Barbara. The research proposal he tricity use and carbon emissions. included in his application marked a return to semi- conductor nanowires. Yang’s proposal explored the in- An Artificial Leaf teractions of nanowires with both light and heat and In 2015, Yang’s group published the design of their ways to convert those interactions into electricity. With fully integrated artificial photosynthesis system (8). By his nanowire experience and his strong publication re- Yang’s own description, the system is “cyborgian,” cord, Yang garnered several job offers. He accepted an fusing biology and nanochemistry. Nanowire semicon- offer in 1999 from the University of California, Berkeley. ductors absorb light energy and convert it into elec- In his initial years at Berkeley, Yang explored the tricity, then feed those electrons to bacterial catalysts optical properties of nanowires. Because the composi- that combine water and carbon dioxide into organic tion, length, diameter, and density of nanowires are compounds. Initially, the system produced acetate as a highly tunable, nanowires can perform a staggering product, and the acetate can then be converted into range of optical functions. As light absorbers, nanowires other chemicals, such as butanol and polymers. The could serve as photodetectors, chemical sensors, and cyborgian system, Yang says, might someday aid hu- solar cells. As light emitters, they could function as light- man space exploration by efficiently converting waste emitting diodes, photon waveguides, and lasers (6). products back into useful materials, conserving limited resources (9). Converting Energy with Nanowires Yang’s integrated system has developed in parallel With his experience studying the interactions of light with with the artificial leaf system developed by Daniel Nocera nanowire semiconductors, Yang was well-positioned at Harvard University. Both groups have designed sys- to take on the challenge of artificial photosynthesis tems that use light energy to split water molecules when Steven Chu, then laboratory director of Lawrence and synthesize new organic compounds. Nocera’sre- Berkeley National Laboratory and later Secretary of search is more focused on catalysts than semiconductor Energy, launched the Helios Solar Energy Research nanostructures, however. Light-energy harvesting is Center to spur research into synthetic photosynthesis. achieved through conventional photovoltaic technology. Natural photosynthesis is essentially the conversion of Yang continues to investigate additional mate- light energy, carbon dioxide, and water into organic rials and formulations to expand his nanowire pho- compounds, with oxygen as a byproduct. An artificial tonics portfolio. In his Inaugural Article (10), Yang photosynthesis system could generate not only power describes a class of semiconductor nanowires that but also useful chemical byproducts while consuming, use halide elements, such as chlorine, bromine, and rather than emitting, carbon dioxide. iodine to link atoms together through ionic bonding Yang’s initial design used high surface area nano- rather than traditional covalent bonding. The prop- wire arrays as the light absorption medium, which erties of the nanowires, called inorganic halide pe- would pass electrons to a catalyst that would expedite rovskites, are highly tunable depending
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