Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define the next age?...
A new material developed by BIDMaP researchers captures CO₂ from outdoor air with unprecedented speed, marking a critical leap toward practical direct air capture technology...
Just three years after its launch, BIDMaP has translated an ambitious vision into reality. Teams have built autonomous laboratories that learn from experimentation, contributed to...
Omar Yaghi’s pioneering work on metal-organic frameworks opened up a new class of transformative materials. Researchers at Berkeley Lab and its DOE user facilities are designing MOFs for next...
A multi-institution research team has unveiled AIRES (Algorithmic Iterative Reticular Synthesis), a powerful AI-driven platform designed to dramatically speed up the discovery of new...
On December 10, the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony was held at the Stockholm Concert Hall, marking the annual presentation of the prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine...
BIDMaP Postdoctoral Fellow Alum Dr. Peichen Zhong has been selected as a 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences, one of the most prestigious global recognitions for researchers shaping the future of artificial...
EarthTech2025 is the third annual symposium organized by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society in partnership with the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet, the Department of Physics and Berkeley Discovery at UC Berkeley, with the goal
of bringing together experts and students...
Professor Omar M. Yaghi, BIDMaP Co-Director and Chief Scientist, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for pioneering metal organic frameworks (MOFs) that enable breakthroughs in...
Professor Omar M. Yaghi, BIDMaP Co-Director and Chief Scientist, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson...
BIDMaP is delighted to share that Professor Omar M. Yaghi has been selected to receive the 2025 Von Hippel Award, the highest honor conferred by the Materials Research Society (MRS).
BIDMaP is pleased to welcome six outstanding postdoctoral fellows whose expertise in materials science, chemistry, computation, and AI will accelerate discovery across Berkeley and beyond. Fellows are central to BIDMaP’s mission...
This summer, BIDMaP bids a fond farewell to four of our outstanding postdoctoral researchers: Zach Zheng, Théo Jaffrelot Inizan, Peichen Zhong, and Shengchao Liu—as they take the next steps in their careers.
BIDMaP congratulates our Co-Director, Omar Yaghi, on being named University Professor—UC’s highest faculty honor. Omar is “the perfect scholar” for this title, having invented the field of reticular...
