Archive for April, 2015

PCCP Tulip2015 Awards

We are delighted to announce the winners of the PCCP Tulip2015 awards that were given at the Tulip2015 Summer School on Modern Developments in Spectroscopy in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. This year, there were two winners of the prize, best presentation went to Sana Habka of CEA Saclay, France for her poster on “Gas Phase Spectroscopy of Zwitterionic Complexes” and best layout went to Ana Krin of Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Hamburg, Germany  for her poster on “Enantiomer Identification in Mixtures Using Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy”. The winners each received a certificate and a cash prize.

Pictured (left): Prof. Wybren Jan Buma (co-chair of the Tulip Summer School), Prof. Jennifer Herek (co-chair of the Tulip VI Summer School), Sana Habka (PCCP Poster prize winner for best presentation) and Prof. Paul Corkum (lecturer at Tulip2015 and presenting the award on behalf of the committee of all 6 Tulip lecturers).

Pictured (right): Prof. Wybren Jan Buma, Prof. Jennifer Herek, Prof. Paul Corkum, and Ana Krin (PCCP Poster prize winner for best poster layout/text).

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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:

Hidden photoinduced reactivity of the blue fluorescent protein mKalama1
Russell B. Vegh, Dmitry A. Bloch, Andreas S. Bommarius, Michael Verkhovsky, Sergei Pletnev, Hideo Iwaï, Anastasia V. Bochenkova and Kyril M. Solntsev
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00887E, Paper

Rayleigh light scattering properties of atmospheric molecular clusters consisting of sulfuric acid and bases
Jonas Elm, Patrick Norman and Kurt V. Mikkelsen
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP01012H, Paper

Comparison of the plasmonic performances between lithographically fabricated and chemically grown gold nanorods

Lei Shao, Yuting Tao, Qifeng Ruan, Jianfang Wang and Hai-Qing Lin   Physicochemical design and analysis of self-propelled objects that are characteristically sensitive to environments
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 10861-10870
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00715A, Paper

Order and disorder around Cr3+ in chromium doped persistent luminescent AB2O4 spinels
Neelima Basavaraju, Kaustubh R. Priolkar, Didier Gourier, Aurélie Bessière and Bruno Viana
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 10993-10999
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP01097G, Paper

Physicochemical design and analysis of self-propelled objects that are characteristically sensitive to environments

Satoshi Nakata, Masaharu Nagayama, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Nobuhiko J. Suematsu and Takeshi Hasegawa
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 10326-10338
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00541H, Perspective

Strong field laser control of photochemistry

Ignacio R. Solá, Jesús González-Vázquez, Rebeca de Nalda and Luis Bañares
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00627A, Perspective

Nuclear quantum tunnelling in enzymatic reactions – an enzymologist’s perspective  Strong field laser control of photochemistry
Linus O. Johannissen, Sam Hay and Nigel S. Scrutton
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00614G, Perspective

Internal heavy atom effects in phenothiazinium dyes: enhancement of intersystem crossing via vibronic spin–orbit coupling
Angela Rodriguez-Serrano, Vidisha Rai-Constapel, Martha C. Daza, Markus Doerr and Christel M. Marian
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00194C, Paper

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2015 PCCP – Chemical Society of Japan Prizes

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2015 PCCP Prizes for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics. These were awarded by Dr Robert Parker (CEO of the Royal Society of Chemistry) and Dr Anna Simpson (PCCP Editor) at a prize ceremony held at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan at Nihon University, College of Science and Technology on 27th March. The winners each received a commemorative book, a PCCP Prize certificate and a financial award.

The prizewinners:

Dr. Manabu Kanno of Tohoku University for his work on “Laser Control of Attosecond Electron Dynamics Nonadiabatically Coupled with Femtosecond Molecular Vibrations

Dr. Michio Yamada of Tokyo Gakugei University for his work on”Unveiling the Unique Structures and Chemical Reactivities of Endohedral Metallofullerenes

Dr. Taniyuki Furuyama of Tohoku University) for his work on “Development of azaporphyrin complexes with main-group elements

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