Associate professor @ucsbchemistry | Light-responsive molecules💡 | Thermal energy storage🔋 | Controlled recycling ♻️
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined December 2018
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After 7 incredible years at Brandeis, I'm excited to start a new chapter at UCSB today😊 I'm forever grateful to my wonderful colleagues at Brandeis for their support. Looking forward to building an interdisciplinary program in materials & energy @ucsbchemistry🌴☀️🔋
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Congratulations to @GraceGDHan and the Han Group at UCSB on this incredible research breakthrough ☀️👏
Scientists at U.C. Santa Barbara have developed a new kind of “liquid battery” that can capture sunlight and release it later as heat, a breakthrough researchers say could help solve one of renewable energy’s biggest challenges — storing solar energy after the sun goes down. Details: ktla.com/news/local-news/ucs…
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Pacifichem 2025 Designed π Symposium for 2.5 days came to the end. Thanks for all the people involved in this event. It was such an exciting experience to be part of such an amazing organizing team. Mahalo!
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One of the best things in science is the opportunity to meet individuals all over the world who not only are outstanding scientists but also very nice persons and become friends over the years. Pleasant lunch with @JudyWuChem,@afukazawa79,@GraceGDHan & Frieder, nice too see you!
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RCSA, @SloanFoundation & @KavliFoundation have made awards to 8 cross-disciplinary teams of early career researchers in the second year of #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials. Congratulations! wp.me/pgj04D-avj
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Congrats to #Scialog: SM3 awardees Grace Han @GraceGDHan @ucsbchemistry @ucsantabarbara, Youhong Nancy Guo @nancyguo06 @UNC @aps_unc, and Michael Zuerch @zuerchlab @UCB_Chemistry for “Sustainable Lithium Enrichment by Hydrogel-Mediated Solar Evaporation.”
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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN ACTION: DCB Professor Grace Han (@GraceGDHan) and Graduate Student Han P.Q. Nguyen featured by UCSB Grad Div 🧪vimeo.com/1124039567?ref=tw-…
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Congratulations to Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Grace Han (@GraceGDHan, @ucsantabarbara), for being named a @MooreFound Inventor Fellow! @ucsbchemistry
news.ucsb.edu/2025/022052/ch…
Thank you @floodgroup_iub for selecting our paper 😆 Very happy to know you enjoyed it 🥰
📢Late POTM winner announcement: Shout out to @GraceGDHan and team: The winner of July's Paper Of The Month #POTM for their awesome design of curved anthracenes to store solar thermal energy efficiently.
Check out the paper here.
cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451…
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Researchers, including Teacher-Scholar @GraceGDHan (@ucsantabarbara @BrandeisU), have made "a curved form of anthracene, an organic compound, that captures and stores sunlight in its chemical bonds, releasing the energy as heat when triggered hours later."
cen.acs.org/energy/solar-pow…
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Isothermal time-resolved DSC, PXRD, and solid-state NMR revealed a complex solid-state energy release mechanism in dianthracene crystals.
@JMaterChem
by H. Houjou, K. Schmidt-Rohr, G. G. D. Han @GraceGDHan et al.
unuboreya.blogspot.com/2025/…
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In @NatureChemistry, we report reversible hydroxide emitters that generate highly basic (pH ~13) solns under light & revert to neutral in dark. The compounds, taking advantage of aromaticity effects, can directly capture/concentrate CO2 from ambient air. rdcu.be/eAB2S
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Thank you to @cenmag for sharing the work that I had the opportunity of being a part of. Have a read and see how curved anthracene molecules can be used to store solar energy.
Thanks to @GraceGDHan for this amazing opportunity.
Researchers have made a curved form of anthracene, an organic compound, that captures and stores sunlight in its chemical bonds, releasing the energy as heat when triggered hours later. cen.acs.org/energy/solar-pow…
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Grateful to @physorg_com for covering our recent research from @GraceGDHan Lab
It means a lot to see our work recognized and shared with the broader scientific community.
#Curved anthracene molecules efficiently absorb #VisibleLight, store #SolarEnergy as chemical bonds, and release heat on demand, offering a solvent-free advance in molecular solar thermal storage. doi.org/g9t4m2 phys.org/news/2025-07-molecu…
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Thanks to @cenmag for covering our work!
Grateful to @KMothPoulsen and @Diego__Sampedro for sharing their thoughts on the story.
And heartfelt thanks to @GraceGDHan for the opportunity to be part of this exciting project.
Researchers have made a curved form of anthracene, an organic compound, that captures and stores sunlight in its chemical bonds, releasing the energy as heat when triggered hours later. cen.acs.org/energy/solar-pow…
Our latest #MOST system using curved anthracene’s Dewar isomerization is now on @cenmag news ☀️🔋Thank you @KMothPoulsen and @Diego__Sampedro for nice quotes 😊 Proud of the team! cen.acs.org/energy/solar-pow… @cenmag
Thank you, Prachi Patel, for the excellent story🙏 Teamwork @Subhayan_Chem @Usubaaaaan @WritamC @TPqiuqf @cijil_raju Photo Credit: Ben Baker 📸
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Dewar anthracene with a "cool", highly strained structure exhibits "hot" performance as a MOST material!🔥 Thank you for including me in this work! Congratulations! Team members! @Subhayan_Chem @WritamC @TPqiuqf @cijil_raju and @GraceGDHan
Online now: Curved anthracenes for visible-light photon energy storage via Dewar isomerization dlvr.it/TLx3n7
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Online now: Curved anthracenes for visible-light photon energy storage via Dewar isomerization dlvr.it/TLx3n7
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MOlecular Solar Thermal (MOST) energy materials at their peak performance
Online now: Curved anthracenes for visible-light photon energy storage via Dewar isomerization dlvr.it/TLx3n7