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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2015: Winners and lectures announced

04 Sep 2015

On behalf of the ChemComm Editorial Board, we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship: Deanna D’Alessandro (synthetic inorganic chemistry and molecular materials), University of Sydney, Australia, and Yong Sheng Zhao (organic nanophotonic materials), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Congratulations to Deanna and Yong Sheng!

Yong Sheng Zhao

Yong Sheng kicked off his Lectureship tour at the Asian Pacific Conference on Chemistry of Materials (APCCOM) 2015 on 20 August, followed by a presentation at the 6th International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ChinaNANO 2015) on 04 September, both events located in Beijing. His tour will culminate at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2nd Asian-European Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics on 27-29 October 2015 in Edinburgh, where he will be awarded with his official Lectureship certificate.

Deanna D'Alessandro

Deanna will deliver her inaugural ChemComm EMI Lecture at a symposium on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Properties and Applications at Pacifichem 2015 in Hawaii this December. Further details of her Lectureship tour, including additional lecture locations, will be announced in due course.

This annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. For information on previous winners see our website.

Also of interest: You can now read the 2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigators Issue which highlights research from outstanding up-and-coming scientists. There is a mix of Feature articles and Communications, as well as a Profile of this year’s contributors, with cool photos to spotlight our authors at work or at play – look out for the famed Faraday Loving Cup, some serious curling, the Great Wall of China, and once again, as last year, a pumpkin is involved! You can also take a look at our previous Emerging Investigator issues in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Yong Sheng Zhao presents his first ChemComm EMI Lecture at the APCCOM 2015 in Beijing

Soon to come: We will soon be launching our forthcoming 2016 ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue – watch this space for more details.

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ChemComm Impact Factor – 6.834 and still rising

26 Jun 2015

We are pleased to announce that ChemComm’s latest Impact Factor has once again risen this year, reaching an all-time-high of 6.834, according to the 2014 Journal Citation Reports®.

We are truly grateful to everyone who has contributed to the journal’s continuing success – our authors, referees, readers, Associate Editors, and Editorial and Advisory Boards. Because of you, ChemComm has continued to move from strength to strength as the largest publisher of high quality communications across the chemical sciences, providing fast publication times while delivering great author service.

We invite you to submit your next urgent Communication to ChemComm.

Top cited ChemComm articles:

Feature articles

MOFs for CO2 capture and separation from flue gas mixtures: the effect of multifunctional sites on their adsorption capacity and selectivity
Zhijuan Zhang, Yonggang Zhao, Qihan Gong, Zhong Li and Jing Li
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 653-661
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35561B, Feature Article
From themed collection Metal-organic frameworks

Exploration of the medical periodic table: towards new targets
Nicolas P. E. Barry and Peter J. Sadler
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 5106-5131
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC41143E, Feature Article
From themed collection Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry

Magnetically retrievable catalysts for organic synthesis
R. B. Nasir Baig and Rajender S. Varma
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 752-770
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35663E, Feature Article

Communications

Hierarchical NiCo2O4@MnO2 core–shell heterostructured nanowire arrays on Ni foam as high-performance supercapacitor electrodes
Le Yu, Genqiang Zhang, Changzhou Yuan and Xiong Wen (David) Lou
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 137-139
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37117K, Communication

Synthesis of MoS2 nanosheet–graphene nanosheet hybrid materials for stable lithium storage
Xiaosi Zhou, Li-Jun Wan and Yu-Guo Guo
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1838-1840
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38780A, Communication

Carbon-dot-based ratiometric fluorescent sensor for detecting hydrogen sulfide in aqueous media and inside live cells
Changmin Yu, Xizhen Li, Fang Zeng, Fangyuan Zheng and Shuizhu Wu
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 403-405
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37329G, Communication

Flexible, low-temperature, solution processed ZnO-based perovskite solid state solar cells
Mulmudi Hemant Kumar, Natalia Yantara, Sabba Dharani, Michael Graetzel, Subodh Mhaisalkar, Pablo P. Boix and Nripan Mathews
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 11089-11091
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46534A, Communication

Read more Impact Factor highlights for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s leading journals, including Chemical Science and Chemical Society Reviews.

Find out how other RSC journals are ranked in the latest Impact Factor release

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data based on 2014 Journal Citation Reports^®, (Thomson Reuters, 2015).

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship: Tomislav Friščić

15 Apr 2015

Tomislav Friščić (McGill University), one of the winners of the 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, delivered the first of his three lectures, entitled “Mechanochemistry: from environmentally-friendly synthesis to the discovery of new materials and reactivity,” at the University of Ottawa on 25 February 2015.

Tomislav will next be speaking at University College London on Friday, 17 April 2015, and will deliver his final Lectureship talk at the 22nd International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS XXII) in Niigata, Japan on 12-17 July 2015, where he will be formally awarded with his Lectureship certificate.

Xinliang Feng (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) was the third recipient of the 2014 Lectureship, and he will be delivering his lecture at ECME 2015 – the 13th European Conference on Molecular Electronics – to be held in Strasbourg from 1-5 September 2015. More details on this and Xinliang’s other forthcoming lectures will be posted soon.

Our annual lectureship recognises emerging scientists in the early stages of their independent academic career. We will soon be announcing our winners for 2015.

ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014 recipient Tomislav Friscic delivering his lecture at the University of Ottawa

Tomislav Friscic with his host at the University of Ottawa, David Bryce

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship: Simon M. Humphrey

14 Apr 2015

Dr Simon Humphrey (University of Texas at Austin), one of the winners of the 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, is currently on his Lectureship tour in three locations in California:

University of California – San Diego, 10 April 2015
University of California – Riverside, 13 April 2015
University of California – Santa Barbara, 15 April 2015

Simon delivered the first of his three lectures, entitled “Noble metal nanoparticles and phosphine coordination materials for heterogeneous catalysis, sequestration and sensing,” last Friday at the University of California in San Diego, where he was awarded with his Lectureship certificate by ChemComm Advisory Board member Professor Seth Cohen. Congratulations, Simon!

ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014 recipient Simon Humphrey receives his certificate from Professor Seth Cohen after delivering his lecture at the University of California in San Diego

Simon Humphrey with ChemComm Advisory Board members Josh Figueroa (left) and Seth Cohen (right)

Our annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

We will be announcing our 2015 winners soon – watch this space!

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2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigators Issue – now published

18 Mar 2015

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 2015 ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue.

Now on its fifth year, we continue to be overwhelmed by the community’s positive response to this issue, which showcases up-and-coming scientists who are internationally recognised for making outstanding contributions to their respective fields.

The special issue includes a selection of Feature Articles and Communications, as well as a Profile of this year’s contributors, with cool photos to spotlight our authors at work or at play – look out for the famed Faraday Loving Cup, some serious curling, the Great Wall of China, and once again, as last year, a pumpkin is involved! You can also take a look at our previous Emerging Investigator issues in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

And in case you’re interested to know why spiders are on the issue’s front cover, you can read the backstory.

View the whole Emerging Investigators 2015 collection today.

We invite you to submit your next communication article to ChemComm.

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2015 – nominations open

04 Nov 2014

We are delighted to invite nominations for ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2015. The Lectureship, which is awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

To qualify
To be eligible for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, the candidate should have completed their PhD on or after 4th September 2006. The candidate should also have published at least one article in ChemComm during the course of their independent career.

Lectureship details
The recipient of the Lectureship will be invited to present a lecture at three different locations over a 12 month period. It is expected that at least one of the locations will be a conference. The recipient will receive a contribution of £1500 towards travel and accommodation costs. S/he will also be presented with a certificate and be asked to contribute a ChemComm Feature Article.

Nominations
Those wishing to make a nomination should send the following details to the ChemComm Editorial Office by Monday 8th December 2014:

Recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
A one page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, list of up to five independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents and other indicators of esteem and evidence of independence.
A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referees are requested to comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Please note that self nomination is not permitted.

Selection procedure
The ChemComm Editorial Board will draw up a short-list of candidates based on the information provided by the referees and nominator. Short-listed candidates will be asked to provide a supporting statement justifying why they deserve the Lectureship. The recipients of the Lectureship will then be selected and endorsed by the ChemComm Editorial Board, and will be announced in Spring 2015.

Previous winners

2014		Xinliang Feng (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) for advanced organic materials
2014		Tomislav Friščić (McGill University, Canada) for organic chemistry
2014		Simon M. Humphrey (University of Texas, USA) for inorganic chemistry
2013		Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA) for synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry
2013		Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London, UK) for biophysical chemistry

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Chemistry of water

21 Feb 2014

We are delighted to share with you a series of collections of recent books, themed issues and articles on the topic of water. These four collections – one per month – demonstrate different aspects of water: its chemistry, its wide use in reactions and as a solvent, its relationship with energy and sustainability, as well as with human health and the environment.

Image (c) Shutterstock

Here, in our first collection, we have assembled some of the groundbreaking research and transformative reviews related to the fundamental chemistry of water – including its interfacial behaviour and thermodynamics – from across our journals.

“This collection showcases highly topical and significant papers we have recently published on the underlying, essential chemistry of water, ” says Dr Robert Eagling, Managing Editor for Chemical Science, Chemical Communications, and Chemical Society Reviews. “Authored by some of the leading scientists in the field, we hope that these articles will be of broad interest and of great use to all researchers – those who have spent years actively investigating the chemistry of water, as well as university or graduate students who may have just entered into this exciting field of research.”

“This year, as the IPCC prepares to release the final contributions to their Fifth Assessment Report on climate change, it is timely to consider the role of chemistry in addressing global challenges, such as food, water, raw materials and energy,” remarks Professor Lesley Yellowlees, President of the Royal Society of Chemistry. “This collection from our journals shares the latest research from scientists around the world, aiming to tackle these challenges. Featuring original research and commentary by leaders in the field, we hope that you will find this high-quality collection engaging, inspirational and informative.”

You can read all of these articles for free until 23 March 2014! We truly hope you enjoy this collection.

Did you know that the RSC has put together a webpage on Water, which brings together information on activities for scientists, policymakers, educators and young people? Take a look today…

Related themed issues GA?id=C1CP22168J

These themed issues may be of interest – have a look…

PCCP 2011 themed issue on ice and water

PCCP 2012 themed issue on the interfaces of ionic liquids

PCCP 2012 themed issue on hydrogen bonding in electronically excited states

Reviews and Perspectives

Chemistry in solution: recent techniques and applications using soft X-ray spectroscopy
Kathrin M. Lange, Alexander Kothe and Emad F. Aziz
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012,14, 5331-5338
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP24028A, Perspective

Pressure amorphized ices – an atomistic perspective
John S. Tse and Dennis D. Klug
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012,14, 8255-8263 GA?id=C2CP43235H
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40201G, Perspective

Deeply-cooled water under strong confinement: neutron scattering investigations and the liquid–liquid critical point hypothesis
Christopher E. Bertrand, Yang Zhang and Sow-Hsin Chen
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 721-745
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP43235H, Perspective

On the nature and signatures of the solvated electron in water
B. Abel, U. Buck, A. L. Sobolewski and W. Domcke
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012,14, 22-34
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21803D, Perspective

Oil–water interfacial self-assembly: a novel strategy for nanofilm and nanodevice fabrication
Linfeng Hu, Min Chen, Xiaosheng Fang and Limin Wu
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012,41, 1350-1362 GA?id=C0SM00558D
DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15189D, Critical Review

Very small bubbles at surfaces—the nanobubble puzzle
Vincent Stuart James Craig
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 40-48
DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00558D, Tutorial Review

Original research articles

GA?id=C2SC20399E Experimental and quantum chemical characterization of the water oxidation cycle catalysed by [Ru^II(damp)(bpy)(H₂O)]²⁺
Laura Vigara, Mehmed Z. Ertem, Nora Planas, Fernando Bozoglian, Nils Leidel, Holger Dau, Michael Haumann, Laura Gagliardi, Christopher J. Cramer and Antoni Llobet
Chem. Sci., 2012,3, 2576-2586
DOI: 10.1039/C2SC20399E, Edge Article
From themed collection Physical Chemistry

Inhibition of ice nucleation by slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS)
Peter W. Wilson, Weizhe Lu, Haojun Xu, Philseok Kim, Michael J. Kreder, Jack Alvarenga and Joanna Aizenberg
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 581-585
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP43586A, Paper

GA?id=C3SC52287C Absolute Redox Potential of Liquid Water: A First-Principles Theory
Michael Lucking, Yiyang Sun, Damien West and Shengbai Zhang
Chem. Sci., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3SC52287C, Edge Article

Water-hydroxyl phases on an open metal surface: breaking the ice rules
Matthew Forster, Rasmita Raval, Javier Carrasco, Angelos Michaelides and Andrew Hodgson
Chem. Sci., 2012,3, 93-102
DOI: 10.1039/C1SC00355K, Edge Article
From themed collection Physical Chemistry

GA?id=C0SC00604A Structural trends of ionized water networks: Infrared spectroscopy of water cluster radical cations (H₂O)_n⁺ (n = 3–11)
Kenta Mizuse, Jer-Lai Kuo and Asuka Fujii
Chem. Sci., 2011,2, 868-876
DOI: 10.1039/C0SC00604A, Edge Article

Cold crystallisation behaviour of water molecules in ionic liquids as a screening method to evaluate biocompatibility of the hydrated ionic liquids
Kyoko Fujita, Yohsuke Nikawa and Hiroyuki Ohno
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 3257-3259
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC39033K, Communication

Dual stimuli-responsive phase transition of an ionic liquid/water mixture
Yuki Kohno, Hiroki Arai and Hiroyuki Ohno
Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 4772-4774
DOI: 10.1039/C1CC10613A, Communication

Water droplet bouncing—a definition for superhydrophobic surfaces
Colin R. Crick and Ivan P. Parkin
Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 12059-12061
DOI: 10.1039/C1CC14749H, Communication

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Cubic Dipole Lattice of Water Molecules Trapped inside Carbon Cages
Shinobu Aoyagi, Norihisa Hoshino, Tomoyuki Akutagawa, Yuki Sado, Ryo Kitaura, Hisanori Shinohara, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Rui Zhang and Yasujiro Murata
Chem. Commun., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46683C, Communication

Electrocatalytic oxidation of water observed on a nano-gold/palladium electrode
Yosuke Nakayama and Munetaka Oyama
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 5228-5230
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC42149J, Communication

Me₂–NHC based robust Ir catalyst for efficient water oxidation
Dennis G. H. Hetterscheid and Joost N. H. Reek
Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 2712-2714
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC05108J, Communication

GA?id=C1SM05096F Nanoscale condensation of water on self-assembled monolayers
Michael James, Tamim A. Darwish, Simone Ciampi, Sven O. Sylvester, Zhaoming Zhang, Albert Ng, J. Justin Gooding and Tracey L. Hanley
Soft Matter, 2011,7, 5309-5318
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05096F, Paper

Droplet emission induced by ultrafast spreading on a superhydrophilic surface
Ruize Sun, Hao Bai, Jie Ju and Lei Jiang
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 9285-9289
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51409A, Communication

Dynamics of water confined to reverse AOT micelles
Tinka Luise Spehr, Bernhard Frick, Michaela Zamponi and Bernd Stühn
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5745-5755
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05204G, Paper

GA?id=C1JA10242G Direct chemical analysis of frozen ice cores by UV-laser ablation ICPMS
Wolfgang Müller, J. Michael G. Shelley and Sune Olander Rasmussen
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 2391-2395
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10242G

Determination of Fe²⁺ and Fe³⁺ species by FIA-CRC-ICP-MS in Antarctic ice samples
Andrea Spolaor,Paul Vallelonga,Jacopo Gabrieli,Giulio Cozzi,Claude Boutronand Carlo Barbante
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012, 27, 310-317
DOI: 10.1039/C1JA10276A

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Chem Sci, ChemComm and Chem Soc Rev poster prizes awarded at J400 chemonostics symposium

06 Dec 2013

Congratulations to our Chemical Science, ChemComm and Chem Soc Rev poster prize winners at Chemonostics: Chemical receptors in the development of simple diagnostic devices, a one-day symposium held in Bath, UK on 28 November 2013. The event, organised by Professor Tony James from the University of Bath, was held to celebrate 400 years of Japan-British relations. Our Editor Dr Robert Eagling was on hand to award the prizes.

J400 at Bath - Chemonostics

(Left to right) Giles Prentice, Rama Byravan, Robert Eagling, Xiaolong Sun

The RSC poster prizes were awarded to:

Giles Prentice (Bath) – Chem Soc Rev poster prize
Rama Byravan (Birmingham) – Chemical Science poster prize
Xiaolong Sun (Bath) – ChemComm poster prize

Once again, our warmest congratulations to all our winners!

Read J400: our cross-journal online collection celebrating the 400th anniversary of Japan-British relations

You may also be interested in our web collection dedicated to Professor Seiji Shinkai on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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2014 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in supramolecular chemistry – nominations open

27 Nov 2013

The International Committee of the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry is pleased to invite nominations for the Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize for young supramolecular chemists.

The Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize, named in honour of the winners of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, recognises significant original and independent work in supramolecular chemistry.

Previous winners include:

2013 – Tomoki Ogoshi from Kanazawa University in Japan

2012 – Jonathan Nitschke from the University of Cambridge in the UK

2011 – Amar Flood from Indiana University in the US

Those who are within 10 years of receiving their PhD on 31st December 2013 are eligible for the 2014 award. The winner will receive a prize of £2000 and free registration for the ISMSC meeting in Crystal City, Virginia. In addition to giving a lecture at ISMSC, a short lecture tour will be organised after the meeting in consultation with the Editor of Chemical Communications, the sponsor of the award.

Nomination Details:

Please send your CV, list of publications (divided into publications from your PhD and post-doc, and those from your independent work), and if desired, a letter of support, or these materials for someone you wish to nominate, to Prof. Roger Harrison (ISMSC Secretary) at rgharris@chem.byu.ed by 31st December 2013.

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