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Highlights from themed issues on ionic liquids

30 Jul 2012

The field of ionic liquids has seen phenomenal growth in recent years, with the topic spanning a variety of disciplines across the chemical sciences. The recent themed issues from ChemComm, PCCP and CrystEngComm showcase some of the latest developments from a range of scientific subjects utilising the unique properties of ionic liquids.

Highlights from these themed issues include the articles below, which are free to download until the 24th August. You can also access the full themed issues by clicking on the buttons above.

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Call for papers: Interfacial Phenomena in (De)hydrogenation Reactions

26 Jul 2012

Themed Collection: Interfacial Phenomena in (De)hydrogenation Reactions
Guest Editors: Professor Jinlong Gong (Tianjin University), Professor Zhihong Nie (University of Maryland) and Professor Xinbin Ma (Tianjin University)

PCCP is pleased to announce a high profile online themed collection on Interfacial Phenomena in (De)hydrogenation Reactions. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed collection.

All accepted papers will be published both online and in print and featured as part of a themed collection on the PCCP website, highlighting work from this fast-developing field to the community.

Deadline for Submissions: 31 January 2013

In recent years numerous exciting developments on catalytic (de)hydrogenation have emerged specifically aimed at understanding the nature of active sites of heterogeneous catalysts and at rational design of novel catalytic materials. The intent of the special themed collection is to highlight recent advances in catalytic (de)hydrogenation reactions on solid surfaces. A particular emphasis is placed on the understanding of the interfacial phenomena of adsorbents with well established solid surfaces with the help of advanced characterization tools and theoretical modeling.

Topics covered by this themed collection include:

Microscopy techniques for interfacial reactions of (de)hydrogenation
In situ/Operando characterizations of (de)hydrogenation reactions
Kinetics
Nanotechnology for functionalizing catalytic materials
Interfacial understanding of water splitting

Submission details:

Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service
Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research
Communications and full papers can be submitted for consideration, which will be subject to rigorous peer review
Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue
Further information can be found in our author guidelines

Submit your paper to this themed issue

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Call for papers: Theory meets Spectroscopy- Bunsentagung 2013

26 Jul 2012

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce a forthcoming high-profile themed issue on “Theory meets Spectroscopy”, with Guest Editors Manfred M. Kappes and Willem M. Klopper, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

This will be the official themed issue of the international Bunsentagung 2013 meeting on the same theme organised by the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft (DBG) which takes place in May 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. Free copies of the themed issue will be available at the meeting, maximising the visibility and profile of all published papers.

We invite you to submit a high quality manuscript of original, unpublished research with a focus on quantum chemical methodology for spectroscopy or on the interplay between theory and experiment in spectroscopic studies in the gas or condensed phase.

Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2012

All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the high standards of PCCP. When you submit your article, please indicate that it is for the themed issue.

The invited speakers at the meeting include Mike Ashfold (Bristol), Tobias Brixner (Würzburg), Dominik Marx (Bochum), Frank Neese (Mülheim) and Martin Wolf (Berlin). For further speakers and details about the meeting visit the website.

PCCP has very strong links with the Bunsentagung and the DBG is a co-owner of PCCP. PCCP has published a themed issue on the Bunsentagung hauptthema for the past several years:

We hope you will be able to contribute to this exciting issue.

With our best wishes

Manfred Kappes and Wim Klopper
Guest Editors

Jane Hordern
Deputy Editor, PCCP

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ISOS-3 inter-laboratory collaboration: OPV device stability

25 Jul 2012

This ‘HOT’ paper just published in PCCP results from a large international collaboration across 14 different institutes, and resulted from the 3rd International Summit on Organic Photovoltaic Stability (ISOS-3).

The paper is a systematic TOF-SIMS study of the degradation behavior of six different organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices degraded under three different experimental conditions.

This study highlights the advantage of combining analysis techniques to systematically assess OPV devices. The results of this investigation and previous reports shed new light on OPV stability and is a step towards the large scale application of organic solar cells.

Read the ‘HOT’ PCCP article:

TOF-SIMS investigation of degradation pathways occurring in a variety of organic photovoltaic devices – the ISOS-3 inter-laboratory collaboration
Frederik C. Krebs, Kion Norrman, et al.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41787A

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Call for papers: Very hard x-rays and the frontiers of materials chemistry

25 Jul 2012

PCCP themed issue: Very hard x-rays and the frontiers of materials chemistry
Guest Editor: Mark A. Newton (ESRF, France)

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue ‘very hard x-rays and the frontiers of materials chemistry’. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in spring 2013 and will be promoted to the community throughout the year to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submissions: 03 December 2012

Application of hard X-rays (>30 keV) to fundamental and industrially applicable materials chemistry, covering length scales from the atomic to the long-range. Our emphasis will be on in-situ and time-resolved studies in demanding sample environments: catalysts, synthesis, fuel cells, gas storage, battery materials and operation: though this is not to rule out more traditional solid state structural chemistry wherein very hard X-rays, and their potential crossover with neutron studies, leads to a number of new possibilities and/or more profound insight into the structure/function of a range of materials.

This themed issue will take a holistic view of capabilities/resources currently available worldwide, and aim to showcase what may be achieved using them. This is a rapidly developing area which we believe will be of great interest to the communities involved.

Submission details:

Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service
Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research
Communications and full papers can be submitted for consideration, which will be subject to rigorous peer review
Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue

Submit your paper to this themed issue

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Themed issue of PCCP: New Insights into Organic Chemistry from Forefront Physical Measurements now online!

25 Jul 2012

PCCP is delighted to announce the online publication of Issue 30 which includes a themed collection on New Insights into Organic Chemistry from Forefront Physical Measurements, guest edited by Barry Carpenter, Cardiff University, UK.

The outside front cover features an article on the Direct measurement of Criegee intermediate (CH₂OO) reactions with acetone, acetaldehyde, and hexafluoroacetone by Craig A. Taatjes, Oliver Welz, Arkke J. Eskola, John D. Savee, David L. Osborn, Edmond P. F. Lee, John M. Dyke, Daniel W. K. Mok, Dudley E. Shallcross and Carl J. Percival.

This themed collection contains a broad range of articles including the highlighted Editorial and Perspective below:

New insights into organic chemistry from forefront physical measurements
Barry K. Carpenter
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 10376-10376
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP90109A

Ultrafast time resolved studies of the photochemistry of acyl and sulfonyl azides
Jacek Kubicki , Yunlong Zhang , Jiadan Xue , Hoi Ling Luk and Matthew Platz
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 10377-10390
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40226B

Issue 30 also includes these additional high-profile Perspectives from PCCP’s broad scope:

Rate constants and mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins binding to structured targets
Huan-Xiang Zhou , Xiaodong Pang and Cai Lu
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 10466-10476
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41196B
Sub-nm resolution depth profiling of the chemical state and magnetic structure of thin films by a depth-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy technique
Kenta Amemiya
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 10477-10484
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41085K
Adsorption of DNA onto gold nanoparticles and graphene oxide: surface science and applications
Juewen Liu
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 10485-10496
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41186E
Self-healing superhydrophobic materials
Leonid Ionov and Alla Synytska
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 10497-10502
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41377A

Take a look at the issue today!

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PCCP Editor’s choice: biophysics and biophysical chemistry

24 Jul 2012

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Associate Editor Professor Seong Keun Kim, an expert in the field of biophysics and biophysical chemistry, has picked some of his favourite articles recently published in this area in PCCP.

You can read these articles for free for a limited period by clicking on the links below.

Publishing work of the highest quality in the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry, PCCP is the ideal place to publish your research.

Be among the first to hear about the newest articles being published in PCCP – sign up to receive our free table of contents e-alerts.

Read Professor Kim’s Editor’s choice selection for free today:

Perspectives

Mitochondrial biofuel cells: expanding fuel diversity to amino acids
Dushyant Bhatnagar, Shuai Xu, Caitlin Fischer, Robert L. Arechederra and Shelley D. Minteer
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01362E

Design and development of quantum dots and other nanoparticles based cellular imaging probe
Nikhil R. Jana
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00726A

Seeing the forest for the trees: fluorescence studies of single enzymes in the context of ensemble experiments
Yan-Wen Tan and Haw Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02412K

Optical imaging of excited-state tautomerization in single molecules
Anna M. Chizhik, Regina Jäger, Alexey I. Chizhik, Sebastian Bär, Hans-Georg Mack, Marcus Sackrow, Catrinel Stanciu, Alexey Lyubimtsev, Michael Hanack and Alfred J. Meixner
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02228D

Physics of protein–DNA interactions: mechanisms of facilitated target search
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01966F

Revealing time bunching effect in single-molecule enzyme conformational dynamics
H. Peter Lu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02860F

Combining optical trapping, fluorescence microscopy and micro-fluidics for single molecule studies of DNA–protein interactions
Andrea Candelli, Gijs J. L. Wuite and Erwin J. G. Peterman
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02844D

Electrostatic interactions in biological DNA-related systems
A. G. Cherstvy
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02796K

Original research

Effects of all-atom force fields on amyloid oligomerization: replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations of the Aβ16–22 dimer and trimer
Phuong H. Nguyen, Mai Suan Li and Philippe Derreumaux
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20323A

Solvent-assisted conformational isomerization and the conformationally-pure REMPI spectrum of 3-aminophenol
Woon Yong Sohn, Minho Kim, Sang-Su Kim, Young Dong Park and Hyuk Kang
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02592E

Free energy evaluation of the p53-Mdm2 complex from unbinding work measured by dynamic force spectroscopy
Anna Rita Bizzarri and Salvatore Cannistraro
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01474E

2D IR photon echo of azido-probes for biomolecular dynamics
Matthew J. Tucker, Xin Sonia Gai, Edward E. Fenlon, Scott H. Brewer and Robin M. Hochstrasser
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01625J

On the different roles of anions and cations in the solvation of enzymes in ionic liquids
Marco Klähn, Geraldine S. Lim, Abirami Seduraman and Ping Wu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01509A

Selective transport of amino acids into the gas phase: driving forces for amino acid solubilization in gas-phase reverse micelles
Yigang Fang, Andrew Bennett and Jianbo Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00823K

Extracting the underlying effective free energy landscape from single-molecule time series—local equilibrium states and their network
Akinori Baba and Tamiki Komatsuzaki
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00694G

On the role of mercury in the non-covalent stabilisation of consecutive U–HgII–U metal-mediated nucleic acid base pairs: metallophilic attraction enters the world of nucleic acids
Ladislav Benda, Michal Straka, Yoshiyuki Tanaka and Vladimír Sychrovský
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01534B

Making gold nanoparticles fluorescent for simultaneous absorption and fluorescence detection on the single particle level
Alexander Gaiduk, Paul V. Ruijgrok, Mustafa Yorulmaz and Michel Orrit
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01389G

Photoblinking and photobleaching of rylene diimide dyes
Mathias Haase, Christian G. Hübner, Fabian Nolde, Klaus Müllen and Thomas Basché
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01814G

Single particle tracking in systems showing anomalous diffusion: the role of weak ergodicity breaking
Stas Burov, Jae-Hyung Jeon, Ralf Metzler and Eli Barkai
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01879A

Unfolding dynamics of cytochrome c revealed by single-molecule and ensemble-averaged spectroscopy
Jungkweon Choi, Sooyeon Kim, Takashi Tachikawa, Mamoru Fujitsuka and Tetsuro Majima
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02689A

Photoinduced pH drops in water
Matthieu Emond, Jing Sun, Jean Grégoire, Sylvie Maurin, Christophe Tribet and Ludovic Jullien
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02464C

Mechanisms and advancement of antifading agents for fluorescence microscopy and single-molecule spectroscopy
Thorben Cordes, Andreas Maiser, Christian Steinhauer, Lothar Schermelleh and Philip Tinnefeld
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01919D

Nanoscale chemical imaging of segregated lipid domains using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Lothar Opilik, Thomas Bauer, Thomas Schmid, Johannes Stadler and Renato Zenobi
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02832K

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Noses smell by picking up molecules’ vibrations

23 Jul 2012

US scientists have investigated how our noses work and found that olfactory receptors can pick up molecular vibrations to distinguish between odour molecules.

Previously, scientists thought that a lock-and-key mechanism was operating between different olfactory receptors and molecules. But then, it was noted that people could smell the difference between deuterated and non-deuterated compounds, which have the same shape but different vibrational frequencies. This paper provides further support for a vibrationally-assisted mechanism for smell.

Read the ‘HOT’ PCCP paper:

Vibrationally Assisted Electron Transfer Mechanism of Olfaction: Myth or Reality?
Ilia Solov’yov, Po-Yao Chang and Klaus J Schulten
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41436H

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PCCP Perspective: Measuring viscosity inside cells

23 Jul 2012

In this fascinating PCCP Perspective Marina Kuimova of Imperial College London, describes the use of fluorescent molecular rotors to measure and image microviscosity within individual domains of live cells. Knowing about this viscosity is important as diffusion plays an important role in many biological processes.

Read this exciting PCCP Perspective in full today:

Mapping viscosity in cells using molecular rotors
Marina K. Kuimova
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41674C

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PCCP Communications: fast publication of high impact research

17 Jul 2012

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) publishes high impact Communications on the most important new research in areas across the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. PCCP is proud to be a Society journal and is co-owned by 17 national chemical societies.

Now PCCP’s Accepted Manuscript service means your research is available, in citable form, on average within one day of acceptance.

Choose to submit to one of our Associate Editors: Katsuhiko Ariga (NIMS, Japan), Hedi Mattoussi (Florida State University), Frank Neese (Max-Planck Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Germany) and Seong Keun Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) or to the Cambridge Editorial office.

Submit your best research today.

Read a selection of our high impact Communications:

The development of direct multicolour fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy: Towards a new tool for tracking complex biomolecular events in real-time
Holly M. Wobma, Megan L. Blades, Ekaterina Grekova, Dylan L. McGuire, Kun Chen, Warren C. W. Chan and David T. Cramb
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23278B

Mesoporous carbon capsules as electrode materials in electrochemical double layer capacitors
Shanthi Murali, Daniel R. Dreyer, Patricia Valle-Vigón, Meryl D. Stoller, Yanwu Zhu, Cornelio Morales, Antonio B. Fuertes, Christopher W. Bielawski and Rodney S. Ruoff
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02557G

Layering and shear properties of an ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate, confined to nano-films between mica surfaces
Susan Perkin, Tim Albrecht and Jacob Klein
DOI: 10.1039/B920571C

Nanoparticle-coated separators for lithium-ion batteries with advanced electrochemical performance
Jason Fang, Antonios Kelarakis, Yueh-Wei Lin, Chi-Yun Kang, Ming-Huan Yang, Cheng-Liang Cheng, Yue Wang, Emmanuel P. Giannelis and Li-Duan Tsai
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22017A

A liposome-based energy conversion system for accelerating the multi-enzyme reactions
Ryuhei Matsumoto, Masaya Kakuta, Taiki Sugiyama, Yoshio Goto, Hideki Sakai, Yuichi Tokita, Tsuyonobu Hatazawa, Seiya Tsujimura, Osamu Shirai and Kenji Kano
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00556H

2D assembly of gold–PNIPAM core–shell nanocrystals
Sarah Jaber, Matthias Karg, Anthony Morfa and Paul Mulvaney
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02494E

CVD graphene electrochemistry: the role of graphitic islands
Dale A. C. Brownson and Craig E. Banks
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21978B

The importance of surface morphology in controlling the selectivity of polycrystalline copper for CO₂ electroreduction
Wei Tang, Andrew A. Peterson, Ana Sofia Varela, Zarko P. Jovanov, Lone Bech, William J. Durand, Søren Dahl, Jens K. Nørskov and Ib Chorkendorff
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22700A

In silico free energy predictions for ionic liquid-assisted exfoliation of a graphene bilayer into individual graphene nanosheets
Gary A Baker
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40824D

Electrospinning of chitosan derivative nanofibers with structural stability in an aqueous environment
Ashleigh Cooper, Narayan Bhattarai, Forrest M. Kievit, Michael Rossol and Miqin Zhang
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02909B

Visualisation of electrochemical processes at optically transparent carbon nanotube ultramicroelectrodes (OT-CNT-UMEs)
Agnieszka Rutkowska, Tahani M. Bawazeer, Julie V. Macpherson and Patrick R. Unwin
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02804E

Strong location dependent surface enhanced Raman scattering on individual gold semishell and nanobowl particles
Jian Ye, Chang Chen, Liesbet Lagae, Guido Maes, Gustaaf Borghs and Pol Van Dorpe
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00872A

Nanoreactors’ for photocatalytic H₂ evolution in oil–water biphase systems
Jiehua Liu, Xiangfeng Wei, Yaolun Yu, Xin Wang, Wei-Qiao Deng and Xue-Wei Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01396J

Fluorescence energy transfer efficiency in labeled yeast cytochrome c: a rapid screen for ion biocompatibility in aqueous ionic liquids
Sheila N. Baker, Hua Zhao, Siddharth Pandey, William T. Heller, Frank V. Bright and Gary A. Baker
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02345K

Impact of surface mechanics on the reactivity of electrodes
J. Weissmüller, R. N. Viswanath, L. A. Kibler and D. M. Kolb
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01742F

On the proton conductivity in pure and gadolinium doped nanocrystalline cerium oxide
Mona Shirpour, Giuliano Gregori, Rotraut Merkle and Joachim Maier
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01702G

Salting out in organic solvents: a new route to carbon nanotube bundle engineering
Maxim V. Fedorov, Raz N. Arif, Andrey I. Frolov, Martin Kolar, Anastasia O. Romanova and Aleksey G. Rozhin
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21440C

Electrical conductivity in patterned silver–mesoporous titania nanocomposite thin films: towards robust 3D nano-electrodes
Eduardo D. Martínez, Leticia Granja, Martín G. Bellino and Galo J. A. A. Soler-Illia
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00824A

Charge transfer kinetics in CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cells
Eugenia Martínez-Ferrero, Ivan Mora Seró, Josep Albero, Sixto Giménez, Juan Bisquert and Emilio Palomares
DOI: 10.1039/B924970B

“Cosmetic electrochemistry”: the facile production of graphite microelectrode ensembles
Nadeem A. Choudhry, Rashid O. Kadara and Craig E. Banks
DOI: 10.1039/B923246J

Dielectrophoretic trapping of DNA-coated gold nanoparticles on silicon based vertical nanogap devices
Sebastian Strobel, Ralph A. Sperling, Bernhard Fenk, Wolfgang J. Parak and Marc Tornow
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02718A

Nitrogen-doped coatings on carbon nanotubes and their stabilizing effect on Pt nanoparticles
Xenia Tuaev, Jens Peter Paraknowitsch, René Illgen, Arne Thomas and Peter Strasser
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40760D

Application of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy to the study of SOFC electrode surfaces
Xiaxi Li, Kevin Blinn and Meilin Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40091J

You can find many more excellent Communications on our website.

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Archive for July, 2012

Highlights from themed issues on ionic liquids

Call for papers: Interfacial Phenomena in (De)hydrogenation Reactions

Call for papers: Theory meets Spectroscopy- Bunsentagung 2013

ISOS-3 inter-laboratory collaboration: OPV device stability

Call for papers: Very hard x-rays and the frontiers of materials chemistry

Themed issue of PCCP: New Insights into Organic Chemistry from Forefront Physical Measurements now online!

PCCP Editor’s choice: biophysics and biophysical chemistry

Noses smell by picking up molecules’ vibrations

PCCP Perspective: Measuring viscosity inside cells

PCCP Communications: fast publication of high impact research

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