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Grace Han
@gracegdhan.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UCSB Chemistry & Biochemistry | Energy Storage via Photochemical Reactions☀️| Recycling♻️ Catalysts and Polymers
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RCSA, @sloanfoundation.bsky.social & @kavlifoundation.org have made awards to eight cross-disciplinary teams of early career researchers in the second year of #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials.
2025 Scialog SM3 Awards
Eight cross-disciplinary teams have won funding in the second year of Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials, a three-year initiative catalyzing cutting-edge basic science to address how...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Congrats to Daniil for his publication in @chemcomm.rsc.org bit.ly/4l8B3jd showing how hydrazone photoswitches can be used in Raman scattering spectroscopy. A step forward for using hydrazones in super-resolution stimulated Raman scattering microscopy #molswitch #chemsky 🧪⚗️
Alkyne hydrazones for Raman scattering spectroscopy
We explored alkyne-functionalized hydrazone photoswitches and enhanced their performance, achieving improved UV resolution, higher photostationary states, and tunable alkyne shifts (up to 34 cm−1), es...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
After 7 incredible years at Brandeis, I'm excited to start a new chapter at UCSB Chemistry today 😊 I'm forever grateful to my wonderful colleagues at Brandeis for their support. Looking forward to building an interdisciplinary program in materials & energy @ucsb.bsky.social 🌴☀️🔋
July 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Excited to share the publication of our automated characterisation platform for measuring the quantum yield and half life of molecular photoswitches. The method is easy to use and reduce also the needed amount for characterisation.
#chemsky #molswitch

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June 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵
June 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Back🏡-❤️full!
Inspiring GRC-Endless gratitude to #AlexLippert & #MindyLevine for making it happen💫An honour to introduce 2 of the BIG GUYS #AmarFlood & #DirkTrauner
How powerful it is coming together with purpose & good will. BTW, will we ever agree on molecular machine definition😅?See you soon! 👋🏼👋🏼
June 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Congrats to Stephen Wright & Cathy Welder on their new paper in J Chem Ed showing how we phased out DCM from undergrad orgo labs @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social. Timely work as many grapple with new EPA regs on DCM use
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#ChemEd #GreenChemistry #DCM #EPA #Chemsky 🧪⚗️
Elimination of Dichloromethane from the Introductory Organic Chemistry Teaching Laboratory
Recent regulatory action in the United States has made it impractical for many institutions of higher learning to continue the use of dichloromethane in their teaching laboratories. We offer condensed...
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June 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Greetings from the GRC on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors! It’s exciting to see how the field has grown and is moving toward everyday applications—think photoswitchable tattoos!
June 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Yay! @gracegdhan.bsky.social for receiving the Cram Lehn Pedersen (CLP) Award in Supramolecular Chemistry at #ISMSC2025
May 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Have been waiting for this to come out for a while - what a great feat by Sophie and her team pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
April 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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@gracegdhan.bsky.social smashing it, as always, during her award lecture at #ACSSpring2025
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I am so excited and honored to be named a 2025 ACS WCC Rising Star! Come see the fantastic lineup @acs.org #ACSSpring2025 Monday from 8am-noon in Room 29A!
March 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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We report a new nickel based conductive MOF with amino functionalized macrocyclic linker that features metallic charge transport ⚡️The access to this article is free for the next 50 days!

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Nanoporous synthetic metal: A nickel MOF with an amino-functionalized macrocyclic ligand
Integrating metallic charge transport with high porosity in a single material can unlock significant advancements in energy storage, electrocatalysis,…
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March 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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@juliekovacs.bsky.social Thank you so much for wonderful company! I enjoyed the visit and every meeting with the students and faculty members! Many thanks to Dianne and Doug for kind invitation 😀
Wonderful dinner with seminar speaker Jihye Park from Boulder, and my colleagues Dianne and Doug. Lots of laughter and earnest conversation. 🥰
February 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Good news! We have a notice of funding from the DoD Air Force OSR to support the 2025 Molecular Switches and Motors GRC.

We will be selecting talks from submitted abstracts soon!

Grateful to the scientific community and the DoD Natural Materials and Systems program for their support. Stay strong
February 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Who wants to come and work with our group @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social on photoswitches and photopharmacology 🙋‍♀️🙋🏻🙋‍♂️

Apply for our open #chempostdoc position now! Deadline 28th Feb. Reposts appreciated #Chemsky

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January 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Strengthening our scientific community is more important than ever.

The 2025 Molecular Switches & Motors GRC brings together scientists in the areas of molecular switches & motors, DNA nanotech, emergent materials, haptics, biological motors, and more. Apply today!

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January 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Thanks to those who’ve reached out the last few days. I am grateful that my family and home are safe. Many of my friends and colleagues have lost homes. If you want to help Caltech/JPL faculty/students/staff, a relief fund has been established: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
The Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund
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January 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Very grateful for 2025 Marion Milligan Mason Award 🌟 by @aaas.bsky.social Congrats to all fantastic recipients Jessica Lamb @ewerpointe.bsky.social Erin Stache @stache-lab.bsky.social Michelle Calabrese!

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December 18, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Our 3D volumetric display is on the front cover of the December issue of Chem! Congrats to all involved including awesome collaborator @alexlippert.bsky.social 🧪⚗️#molswitch #photoswitches bit.ly/4ckn44N
December 13, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Excited and honored to deliver #ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lecture today in #SICC-12 Singapore🌴 Thank you #ChemComm and @roysocchem.bsky.social for the award, Xiaodong & Kailin for joining the ceremony🥂🙏
December 10, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Here is a starter pack for folks into tiny switches and machines. I am sure I missed many. Please let me know if you should be included and I will add you
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November 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM