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Exploring and rationalising effective n-doping of large area CVD-graphene by NH3
G. V. Bianco, M. Losurdo, M. M. Giangregorio, P. Capezzuto and G. Bruno
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54451F, Paper

Electronic and magnetic structures of coronene-based graphitic nanoribbons
Acrísio Lins de Aguiar, Aldilene Saraiva-Souza, Zachary Bullard, Dayvison Weber Maia, Antônio Gomes Souza Filho, Eduardo Costa Girão and Vincent Meunier
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54496F, Paper

Gd3+ spin labeling for distance measurements by pulse EPR spectroscopy
Daniella Goldfarb
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53822B, Perspective

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Principles of phosphorescent organic light emitting devices
Boris Minaev, Gleb Baryshnikov and Hans Agren
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53806K, Perspective

Harvesting UV photons for solar energy conversion applications
Mateusz Wielopolski, Katharine E. Linton, Magdalena Marszałek, Murat Gulcur, Martin R. Bryce and Jacques E. Moser
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54914C, Paper

Molecular mobility on graphene nanoribbons
M. Jafary-Zadeh, C. D. Reddy and Y.-W. Zhang
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54095B, Paper

Water balance model for polymer electrolyte fuel cells with ultrathin catalyst layers
Karen Chan and Michael Eikerling
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54849J, Paper

Shock wave and modeling study of the thermal decomposition reactions of pentafluoroethane and 2-H-heptafluoropropane
C. J. Cobos, L. Sölter, E. Tellbach and J. Troe
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54274B, Paper

The influence of transition metal oxides on the kinetics of Li2O2 oxidation in Li–O2 batteries: high activity of chromium oxides
Koffi P. C. Yao, Yi-Chun Lu, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, David G. Kwabi, Marcel Risch, Jigang Zhou, Alexis Grimaud, Paula T. Hammond, Fanny Bardé and Yang Shao-Horn
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53330A, Paper

The benzoic acid–water complex: a potential atmospheric nucleation precursor studied using microwave spectroscopy and ab initio calculations
Elijah G. Schnitzler and Wolfgang Jäger
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54486A, Paper

Comparative dynamics of the two channels of the reaction of D + MuH
F. J. Aoiz, J. Aldegunde, V. J. Herrero and V. Sáez-Rábanos
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53908C,

Non-radiative relaxation of UV photoexcited phenylalanine residues: probing the role of conical intersections by chemical substitution
Momir Mališ, Yohan Loquais, Eric Gloaguen, Christophe Jouvet, Valérie Brenner, Michel Mons, Ivan Ljubić and Nađa Došlić
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53953A, Communication

Attosecond imaging
Marc J. J. Vrakking
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53659A, Perspective

Optimizing nanoporous materials for gas storage
Cory M. Simon, Jihan Kim, Li-Chiang Lin, Richard L. Martin, Maciej Haranczyk and Berend Smit
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP55039G, Paper

Conformer-selective photoelectron spectroscopy of α-lactalbumin derived multianions in the gas phase
Matthias Vonderach, Marc-Oliver Winghart, Luke MacAleese, Fabien Chirot, Rodolphe Antoine, Philippe Dugourd, Patrick Weis, Oliver Hampe and Manfred M. Kappes
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54596B, Paper

Contribution of hydrogen bonding to charge-transfer induced surface-enhanced Raman scattering of an intermolecular system comprising p-aminothiophenol and benzoic acid
Yue Wang, Wei Ji, Zhi Yu, Ran Li, Xu Wang, Wei Song, Weidong Ruan, Bing Zhao and Yukihiro Ozaki
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54856B, Paper

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Li ion dynamics in TiO2 anode materials with an ordered hierarchical pore structure – insights from ex situ NMR
Patrick Bottke, Yu Ren, Ilie Hanzu, Peter G. Bruce and Martin Wilkening
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54586E, Paper

Edge-closed graphene nanoribbons fabricated by spontaneous collapse of few-walled carbon nanotubes
Yunfang Li
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53785D, Paper

Targeting adequate thermal stability and fire safety in selecting ionic liquid-based electrolytes for energy storage
L. Chancelier, A. O. Diallo, C. C. Santini, G. Marlair, T. Gutel, S. Mailley and C. Len
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54225D, Paper

Domain structure for an amorphous iridium-oxide water-oxidation catalyst characterized by X-ray pair distribution function analysis
Jier Huang, James D. Blakemore, Diego Fazi, Oleksandr Kokhan, Nathan D. Schley, Robert H. Crabtree, Gary W. Brudvig and David M. Tiede
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54878C, Communication

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A primer on the synthesis, water-solubilization, and functionalization of quantum dots, their use as biological sensing agents, and present status
Christina Marie Tyrakowski and Preston Todd Snee
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53502A, Perspective

Hydrogen defects in tetragonal ZrO2 studied using density functional theory
Mostafa Youssef and Bilge Yildiz
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54153C, Paper

Mode-specific vibrational relaxation of photoexcited guanosine 5′-monophosphate and its acid form: a femtosecond broadband mid-IR transient absorption and theoretical study
Yuyuan Zhang, Roberto Improta and Bern Kohler
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53815J, Paper

The binding mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins
Jakob Dogan, Stefano Gianni and Per Jemth
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54226B, Perspective

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Electrochemistry at nanometer-sized electrodes
Shengli Chen and Yuwen Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53773K, Perspective

Nanoscale resolution scanning thermal microscopy using carbon nanotube tipped thermal probes
Peter D. Tovee, Manuel E. Pumarol, Mark C. Rosamond, Robert Jones, Michael C. Petty, Dagou A. Zeze and Oleg V. Kolosov
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53047G, Paper

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Electrochemical studies of silver nanoparticles: a guide for experimentalists and a perspective
Kristina Tschulik, Christopher Batchelor-McAuley, Her-Shuang Toh, Emma J. E. Stuart and Richard G. Compton
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54221A, Perspective

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High-resolution anion photoelectron spectra of TiO2−, ZrO2−, and HfO2− obtained by slow electron velocity-map imaging
Jongjin B. Kim, Marissa L. Weichman and Daniel M. Neumark
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54084G, Paper

A conformational factorisation approach for estimating the binding free energies of macromolecules
Kenji Mochizuki, Chris S. Whittleston, Sandeep Somani, Halim Kusumaatmaja and David J. Wales
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53537A, Paper

Detection of a charge-separated catalyst precursor state in a linked photosensitizer-catalyst assembly
Anusree Mukherjee, Oleksandr Kokhan, Jier Huang, Jens Niklas, Lin X. Chen, David M. Tiede and Karen L. Mulfort
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54420F, Paper

Free energy barriers for CO2 and N2 in zeolite NaKA: an ab initio molecular dynamics approach
Amber Mace, Kari Laasonen and Aatto Laaksonen
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52821A, Paper