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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thank you for the shout-out @moth-poulsen.bsky.social 🤩 MOST is on 🔥☄️

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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · Jul 23

Comment on @gracegdhan.bsky.social recent work on energy storage molecules in @cenmag.bsky.social

cen.acs.org/energy/solar...

Curved molecule bottles sunlight and releases it as heat

Liquid anthracene morphs into high-energy isomer to store solar heat for use on demand hours later

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thank you, Giovanni! Let's connect in August! 😊🌴

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jul 3

🥭 says hello back 😆 Thank you Olalla🥰

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank you, Nabarupa!🙏

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank you! 😃

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jul 1

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 🌴☀️🔋

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moth-poulsen.bsky.social @moth-poulsen.bsky.social · Jun 30

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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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jun 30

What a richly deserved recognition! Congratulations Steve! 👏👏

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Steve Goldup @sgoldup.bsky.social · Jun 30

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🧵

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Jun 28

Best GRC ever! #switches_motors Olalla was a fantastic discussion leader. Looking forward to your scientific talk in Vienna 😍

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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · Jun 28

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! 👋🏼👋🏼

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · Jun 26

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!

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · May 29

Thank you, Amar! So honored to join CLP awardees 🥰 @floodgroup.bsky.social @aprahamian.bsky.social

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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · May 29

Yay! @gracegdhan.bsky.social for receiving the Cram Lehn Pedersen (CLP) Award in Supramolecular Chemistry at #ISMSC2025

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Apr 15

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....

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Mar 24

Thank you, Matt! 😊

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 24

@gracegdhan.bsky.social smashing it, as always, during her award lecture at #ACSSpring2025

Grace Han giving a lecture at the ACS national meeting

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Kristin Hutchins @kristinhutchins.bsky.social · Mar 24

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!

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Grace Han @gracegdhan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Congrats Jihye and team!🥰

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Jihye Park @parklabcheerleader.bsky.social · Mar 7

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!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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Jihye Park @parklabcheerleader.bsky.social · Feb 20

@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 😀

Julie Kovacs @juliekovacs.bsky.social · Feb 19

Wonderful dinner with seminar speaker Jihye Park from Boulder, and my colleagues Dianne and Doug. Lots of laughter and earnest conversation. 🥰

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Alex Lippert @alexlippert.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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