The team, led by @gracegdhan.bsky.social and PhD students @hanpqnguyen.bsky.social and Benjamin Baker, proved the stored energy was intense enough to boil water under ambient conditions without the need for electricity.

Thank you @jakeyeston.bsky.social for the shout-out! 🙏

Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 MJ/kg Storing sunlight in a compact and rechargeable form remains a central challenge for solar energy utilization. Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage systems, which harness photon energy and rel...

Exciting chemsky work out First Release in @science.org from @gracegdhan.bsky.social and collaborators, scrunching up pyrimidones so tight with UV light that the strain release can boil water!

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🚀 A new class of ortho-palladated oxazolone complexes that capture and release solar energy via visible-light-triggered [2+2] photocycloaddition 🌞✨ doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@gracegdhan.bsky.social @chemicalscience.rsc.org
#crystallography #education

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...

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.

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

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

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

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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...

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 🧪⚗️

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

🥭 says hello back 😆 Thank you Olalla🥰

Thank you, Nabarupa!🙏

Thank you! 😃

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 🌴☀️🔋

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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What a richly deserved recognition! Congratulations Steve! 👏👏

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🧵

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

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! 👋🏼👋🏼

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...

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 🧪⚗️

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!

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

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

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....

Thank you, Matt! 😊

Grace Han giving a lecture at the ACS national meeting

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

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!

Congrats Jihye and team!🥰

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,…

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...

@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 😀

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