Grace Han
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@GraceGDHan
Associate professor @ucsbchemistry | Light-responsive molecules💡 | Thermal energy storage🔋 | Controlled recycling ♻️
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-new…
📢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/…
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-p…
#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-m…
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-p…
