We're delighted to announce that Grace Han has been awarded the 2025 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize, sponsored by ChemComm! This prize, named in honour of the 1987 Nobel Prize winners, recognises significant work in the field of supramolecular chemistry buff.ly/42XkD7d

The first articles of the thematic issue “Harnessing light energy with molecules” edited by Grace Han, Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen Mogens Brøndsted and Hermann Wegner Wegner Labs are online: ➡️ beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/series/13… Submission is still possible! #photochemistry #photoredox #BJOC 💎🔓

[ISMSC2025 Memorial Lecture & Getting Together] Prof. David A. Leigh will deliver the Prof. Sir Fraser Stoddart Memorial Lecture on May 25 (1st day). Following the lecture, the Getting Together will be held at The Westin Miyako Kyoto. We encourage everyone to attend. #ISMSC2025

#ISMSC2025 favorite anions, in order are BArF, PF6 and BF4. Least favorite is Cl. Favorite write-in was hydride — thanks to Yun Liu 刘允 at PKU for the photo

Yay! To Grace Han for receiving the Cram Lehn Pedersen (CLP) Award in Supramolecular Chemistry at #ISMSC2025

I am thrilled that we finally had this lunch! Thank you! amazing super supervisors! Aiko Fukazawa Grace Han #ISMSC2025

Online now: Curved anthracenes for visible-light photon energy storage via Dewar isomerization dlvr.it/TLx3n7

MOlecular Solar Thermal (MOST) energy materials at their peak performance

New from the Grace Han Lab! We designed curved anthracene molecules for solar energy storage — and just realized they resemble the curved architecture of Miami’s skyline! 😄 Stores up to 0.65 MJ/kg in reversible Dewar isomers. cell.com/chem/fulltext/…

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 Chakraborty Writam SR Choudhuri Qianfeng QIU CIJIL RAJU and Grace Han

Thanks to C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) for covering our work! Grateful to Kasper Moth-Poulsen and Diego Sampedro for sharing their thoughts on the story. And heartfelt thanks to Grace Han for the opportunity to be part of this exciting project.

Grateful to Phys.org for covering our recent research from Grace Han Lab It means a lot to see our work recognized and shared with the broader scientific community.

Thank you to C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) 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 Grace Han for this amazing opportunity.

In Nature Chemistry, 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

Isothermal time-resolved DSC, PXRD, and solid-state NMR revealed a complex solid-state energy release mechanism in dianthracene crystals. J. Mater. Chem. family by H. Houjou, K. Schmidt-Rohr, G. G. D. Han Grace Han et al. unuboreya.blogspot.com/2025/08/catch-…

Researchers, including Teacher-Scholar Grace Han (UC Santa Barbara Brandeis University), 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-p…

Thank you Flood Group for selecting our paper 😆 Very happy to know you enjoyed it 🥰