Archive for July, 2014

PCCP Impact Factor rises to 4.19

We are delighted to announce that PCCP’s Impact Factor* has increased to 4.19.pccp cover

PCCP has a large and truly international readership, which spans many communities in the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.

With fast publication times and great author service, PCCP remains the ideal home for high-quality research.

We thank all of our authors, referees and Board members for their continued support of the journal.

We invite you to submit your next high-quality paper to PCCP.

Read more about the 2013 Impact Factors from across RSC Publishing on the RSC Publishing Blog.

*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 2013 Journal Citation Reports®, (Thomson Reuters, 2014).

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Recent HOT PCCP articles

Check out the following HOT articles, these have all been made free to access for a limited time:

The optical phonon spectrum of CdSe colloidal quantum dotsThe optical phonon spectrum of CdSe colloidal quantum dots
Mark J. Fernée, Chiara Sinito, Paul Mulvaney, Philippe Tamarat and Brahim Lounis
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014,16, 16957-16961
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02022G

The effect of a detonation nanodiamond coating on the thermal decomposition properties of RDX explosives
Yi Tong, Rui Liu and Tonglai Zhang
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02237H

Small things make a big difference: binder effects on the performance of Li and Na batteries
Shu-Lei Chou, Yuede Pan, Jia-Zhao Wang, Hua-Kun Liu and Shi-Xue Dou
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02475C

Pursuit of quantum monodromy in the far-infrared and mid-infrared spectra of NCNCS using synchrotron radiation
Manfred Winnewisser, Brenda P. Winnewisser, Frank C. De Lucia, Dennis W. Tokaryk, Stephen C. Ross and Brant E. Billinghurst
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01443J

Investigation of continuous changes in the electric-field-induced electronic state in Bi1−xCaxFeO3−δInvestigation of continuous changes in the electric-field-induced electronic state in Bi1−xCaxFeO3−δ
Atsushi Ikeda-Ohno, Ji Soo Lim, Takuo Ohkochi, Chan-Ho Yang and Jan Seidel
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02170C

Development of high-performance printed organic field-effect transistors and integrated circuits
Yong Xu, Chuan Liu, Dongyoon Khim and Yong-Young Noh
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02413C

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Diamonds are an explosive’s best friend – PCCP article in Chemistry World

Scientists from China have coated the high energy explosive RDX (hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine) with nanodiamonds in an attempt to make safer explosives.

The group, led by Yi Tong, from the Beijing Institute of Technology, prepared detonation nanodiamonds by detonating a mixture of TNT and RDX in a closed metallic chamber. Detonation nanodiamonds are known to have excellent Diamonds are an explosive’s best friend - © Shutterstockmechanical properties, including high thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity, whilst being chemically reactive but also environmentally benign. RDX was coated with different proportions of nanodiamonds to try to stabilise the explosive. This is important as you don’t want explosives to detonate if they are accidently heated when in storage.

By studying the thermodynamics of the resulting composites, the group found that nanodiamond coatings of between 1/7 and 1/5 of the mass of the RDX led to composites that were more stable than RDX alone, but that were more reactive than composites with thinner coatings. They also found that increasing the nanodiamond ratio to more than 1/3 of the mass of the RDX hindered the decomposition of the material.

Interested to know more?

Read the full article by Rachel Wood in Chemistry World here…

Read the article in PCCP:

The effect of a detonation nanodiamond coating on the thermal decomposition properties of RDX explosives
Yi Tong, Rui Liu and Tonglai Zhang
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02237H

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Recent HOT PCCP articles

Please check out the following HOT PCCP articles, these have been made free to access for a limited time:

Charge generation in polymer–fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cellsCharge generation in polymer–fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells
Feng Gao and Olle Inganäs  
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01814A

Is HO3 multiple-minimum and floppy? Covalent to van der Waals isomerization and bond rupture of a peculiar anion
A. J. C. Varandas  
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01757A

Strong enhancement of parity violation effects in chiral uranium compounds
Michael Wormit, Małgorzata Olejniczak, Anna-Lena Deppenmeier, Anastasia Borschevsky, Trond Saue and Peter Schwerdtfeger
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01904K

Improving the photocatalytic activity and anti-photocorrosion of semiconductor ZnO by coupling with versatile carbonOn the origin of ionicity in ionic liquids. Ion pairing versus charge transfer
Chuang Han, Min-Quan Yang, Bo Weng and Yi-Jun Xu  
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP02189D

On the origin of ionicity in ionic liquids. Ion pairing versus charge transfer
Oldamur Hollóczki, Friedrich Malberg, Tom Welton and Barbara Kirchner  
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01177E

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Density Functional Theory and its applications – themed collection online now!

PCCP is delighted to present its latest themed collection covering recent developments in Density Functional Theory with a balance between theory and applications. The issue was guest edited by David Tozer (Durham University, UK) and Michael Peach (Lancaster University, UK) and was published in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Density Functional Theory and its Applications (DFT2013) that took place at Durham University, UK, from 9–13 September 2013.

The outside front cover features Dye Chemistry with time-dependent density functional theory, a perspective article from Adèle Laurent, Carlo Adamo and Denis Jacquemin.

Check out the themed issue online which contains an excellent range of Papers and Communications in addition to the following Perspective articles:

One-electron self-interaction and the asymptotics of the Kohn–Sham potential: an impaired relation
Tobias Schmidt, Eli Kraisler, Leeor Kronik and Stephan Kümmel
Perspective, DOI: 10.1039/C3CP55433C

Density functional tight binding: values of semi-empirical methods in an ab initio era
Qiang Cui and Marcus Elstner
Perspective, DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00908H

The derivative discontinuity of the exchange–correlation functional
Paula Mori-Sánchez and Aron J. Cohen
Perspective, DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01170H

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