Archive for October, 2015

E-WISPOC 16 European Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry Jan 31 – Feb 5, 2016

PCCP is pleased to support the 2016 edition of the European Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry (E-WISPOC 2016), due to take place in Bressanone (Italy) on January 31 – February 6, 2016. The School, which is part of the cultural initiatives of the Organic Division of the Italian Chemical Society, is open to PhD students and post-docs and will be held at Gruener Baum Hotel, where lecturers and students will be also accommodated in a friendly environment.

Confirmed lecturers are

  • Francesco Zerbetto – Theoretical and computational chemistry (University of Bologna)
  • Maria Ramos – Computational biochemistry (University of Porto – PT)
  • Maria Minunni – Surface plasmon resonance (University of Firenze)
  • Chris Hunter – Physical organic chemistry and biomolecular interactions (University of Cambridge – UK)
  • Bart Ravoo – Biological and supramolecular system(University of Muenster – DE)
  • Jurrian Huskens – Biomolecular adhesion and tissue engineering (University of Twente – NL)
  • Alessandro Casnati – Bioorganic and supramolecular chemistry (University of Parma)
  • Annemieke Madder – ERC starting grants (University of Ghent – BE)
  • Stuart Cantrill (Chief editor Nature Chemistry)
  • Furio Suggi Liverani (Chief technology officer, Illycaffè S.p.A., Trieste)
  • Zoltan Takats – Ambient mass spectrometry (Imperial College London – UK)
  • Luisa De Cola (ISIS, Strasbourg – FR)

For information visit the E-WISPOC website: www.chimica.unipd.it/wispoc or write to: wispoc.chimica@unipd.it – Fellowships are available for young participants.

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Optical spectroscopy coupled with mass spectrometry methods – PCCP Themed Issue

PCCP is pleased to announce the publication of the Optical spectroscopy coupled with mass spectrometry methods themed issue.  This themed issue reports recent progress in the fast developing field of spectroscopy of ions by means of mass spectrometry coupled with optical spectroscopy, focussing on both the experimental and theoretical aspects of this topic.

The guest editor for this themed issue is Professor Anne Zehnacker (University of Paris-Sud, France).

Below are a selection of articles from the collection which are free to access.  Please visit our publishing platform to view the rest of the themed collection.


Anharmonic simulations of the vibrational spectrum of sulfated compounds: application to the glycosaminoglycan fragment glucosamine 6-sulfate
Loïc Barnes, Baptiste Schindler, Abdul-Rahman Allouche, Daniel Simon, Stéphane Chambert, Jos Oomens and Isabelle Compagnon
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 25705-25713
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP02079D


Microhydrated dihydrogen phosphate clusters probed by gas phase vibrational spectroscopy and first principles calculations
Shou-Tian Sun, Ling Jiang, J.W. Liu, Nadja Heine, Tara I. Yacovitch, Torsten Wende, Knut R. Asmis, Daniel M. Neumark and Zhi-Feng Liu
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 25714-25724
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP02253C


Charge transfer in MOH(H2O)+ (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) complexes revealed by vibrational spectroscopy of mass-selected ions
Brett M. Marsh, Jia Zhou and Etienne Garand
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 25786-25792
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP01522G


A pulsed uniform Laval expansion coupled with single photon ionization and mass spectrometric detection for the study of large molecular aggregates
Bernhard Schläppi, Jessica H. Litman, Jorge J. Ferreiro, David Stapfer and Ruth Signorell
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 25761-25771
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00061K

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Organic Field Effect Transistors – PCCP Themed Issue

PCCP are pleased to announce the publication of the Organic Field Effect Transistors themed issue.  The promise of low cost and flexible transistors has encouraged research groups to explore many avenues and resulted in organic field effect transistors (OFETs) with device efficiencies comparable to amorphous silicon based devices.

This themed issue aims to provide new insights into the underlying physical chemistry of organic field effect transistors (OFETs), providing a better understanding of how and why current devices function.

Such knowledge and understanding will be essential in the quest to further enhance the efficiency of OFETs.

The issue is guest-edited by Zhenan Bao (Stanford University), Antonio Facchetti (Northwestern University), Wenping Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), and K. Krishnamoorthy (CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory-Pune).

Below is an example of the high quality work available in the themed collection and if you would like to see more, the full collection can be viewed here.

Organic metal engineering for enhanced field-effect transistor performance
Raphael Pfattner, Concepció Rovira and Marta Mas-Torrent
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 26545-26552
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP03492A


Single-displacement controlled spontaneous electrolysis towards CuTCNQ microribbon electrodes in organic single-crystal transistors
Liangfu He, Zhuoyu Ji, Yonggang Zhen, Jie Liu, Fangxu Yang, Qiang Zhao, Huanli Dong and Wenping Hu
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 26541-26544
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP06064D


Use of heteroaromatic spacers in isoindigo-benzothiadiazole polymers for ambipolar charge transport
Gyoungsik Kim, A-Reum Han, Hae Rang Lee, Joon Hak Oh and Changduk Yang
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 26512-26518
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01787K

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