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PCCP sponsored Young Investigator Winners at the Gordon Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces

The Gordon Research Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces was held at  Salve Regina University on the 11-16th August 2013.

The meeting was a great success with over 100 attendees. A huge proportion of these – 60 – participated in the Young Investigator Competition. PCCP sponsored the three winners of the competition to attend the meeting and they gave their excellent oral presentations on the final night.

The winners were:

  • Joerg Meyer (2nd from left), TU MUENCHEN, Non Adiabatic Vibrational Damping of O2 on Ag(100): Implications for Light Enhanced Catalysis.
  • Jennifer Faust (center), UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, Surfactant Promoted Reactions at Gas Liquid Interfaces: Startling Implications for Tropospheric Aerosol Chemistry
  • Morten Hundt (2nd from right), ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Vibrationally Promoted Chemisorption  of Water on Ni(111)

Young Investigator Competition winners at the Gordon conference on Dynamics at Surfaces

Congratulations winners!

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This week’s HOT articles

Take a look at this week’s selection by clicking on the links below…

On the stability of cationic complexes of neon with helium – solving an experimental discrepancy
Peter Bartl, Stephan Denifl, Paul Scheier and Olof Echt
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52550C, Paper

Chemically activated formation of organic acids in reactions of the Criegee intermediate with aldehydes and ketones
Amrit Jalan, Joshua W. Allen and William H. Green
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52598H, Paper

Chemically activated formation of organic acids in reactions of the Criegee intermediate with aldehydes and ketones

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PCCP themed issue: Physical Chemistry of Nanoparticles

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce a forthcoming high-profile themed issue on “Physical Chemistry of Nanoparticles”, with Guest Editors Jochen Küpper (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY and University of Hamburg) Alf Mews and Horst Weller (University of Hamburg).

This will be the official themed issue of the international Bunsentagung 2014 meeting on the same theme organised by the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft (DBG) which takes place in 2014 in Hamburg, Germany.  Free copies of the themed issue will be available at the meeting, maximising the visibility and profile of all published papers.

Deadline for submissions: 20th December 2013

If you wish to contribute to this themed issue, please contact the PCCP Editorial Office: pccp-rsc@rsc.org

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UK-Asia International Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics

The UK-Asia International Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics will be held at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing on the 9-11 December 2013. More details of the excellent speakers on the website. Free online registration here.

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Katsuhiko Ariga Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

PCCP Associate Editor Katsuhiko Ariga has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr.Katsuhiko Ariga has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Professor Ariga is a Principal Investigator at MANA and is the Director of Supermolecules Group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. His research covers supermolecular chemistry and surface science, including the boundaries between organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and materials chemistry. He is well-known for his work on supramolecular recognition at interfaces and on biomimetic systems.

Submit your work to Professor Ariga’s Editorial Office.

Check out Ariga’s recent Perspective article in PCCP:

Amphiphile nanoarchitectonics: from basic physical chemistry to advanced applications
Muruganathan Ramanathan, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Taizo Mori, Qingmin Ji, Jonathan P. Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 10580-10611
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50620G, Perspective

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If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry

Cafer YavuzChemistry World Editor Jennifor Newton interviewed Cafer Yavuz from KAIST about his career in Chemistry including his exciting research on materials for carbon dioxide capture.

Read the interview in Chemistry World here: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/08/interview-cafer-yavuz-carbon-dioxide-capture

Read Yavuz’s recent article in PCCP:

Limitations and high pressure behavior of MOF-5 for CO2 capture
Joo Young Jung, Ferdi Karadas, Sonia Zulfiqar, Erhan Deniz, Santiago Aparicio, Mert Atilhan, Cafer T. Yavuz and Seung Min Han
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51768C, Paper

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PCCP themed issue: Fundamental Processes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Fundamental Processes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Guest Editors: Efrat Lifshitz (Technion) and Laurens Siebbeles (TU Delft)

PCCP is delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue ‘Fundamental Processes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals’.

The themed issue will be published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in 2014, and will receive great exposure. The issue will get significant promotion at the NanoGe meeting “Fundamental Processes in semiconductor nanocrystals” to be held from 8 to 10 September 2014 in Oxford, UK.

Semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), known for their tuneable electronic band structure, have been at the centre of significant interest over two decades, owing to potential application in various opto-electronic devices and biological platforms.

Please contact the PCCP Editorial Office (pccp-rsc@rsc.org) if you are interested in contributing to this themed issue. The deadline for submissions to the themed issue is 31st March 2014

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PCCP themed issue: Electrocatalysis – fundamental insights for sustainable energy

Electrocatalysis – fundamental insights for sustainable energy
Guest Editors: Marc Koper (Leiden University) and Yasuhiro Iwasawa (The University of Tokyo)

PCCP is delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue ‘Electrocatalysis – fundamental insights for sustainable energy’. This will be guest edited by Marc Koper (Leiden University) and Yasuhiro Iwasawa (The University of Tokyo). The themed issue will be published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in 2014.

With the projected future “electrification” of our society through solar and wind power, the conversion of electricity to chemical bonds and vice versa will be an essential field of physical chemistry in the decades to come. Basic fundamental understanding of these processes, both in model studies and at a more device level, requires detailed quantitative physical-chemistry approaches. This themed issue will deal with the physical chemistry approach to electrocatalysis, balancing fundamental and more applied studies, and aims to have a significant impact on the future directions of this important field.

Please contact the PCCP Editorial Office (pccp-rsc@rsc.org) if you are interested in contributing to this themed issue. The deadline for submissions to this themed issue is the 17th January 2014.


Catalysis Science & TechnologyPCCP is a sister journal to Catalysis Science and Technology. Catalysis Science & Technology brings together the best quality research from the heterogeneous, homogeneous, organocatalysis and bio-catalysis communities.

We thought you might be interested to read these recent articles published in Catalysis Science & Technology in the area of electrocatalysis:

Electrocatalytic effect of ZnO nanoparticles on reduction of nitroaromatic compounds
Her Shuang Toh, Adriano Ambrosi and Martin Pumera
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2013,3, 123-127
DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20253K, Paper

Recent progress in the electrochemical conversion and utilization of CO2
Neil S. Spinner, Jose A. Vega and William E. Mustain
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012,2, 19-28
DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00314C, Perspective

Graphene support for enhanced electrocatalytic activity of Pd for alcohol oxidation
Ravindra Nath Singh and Rahul Awasthi
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011,1, 778-783
DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00021G, Paper

Shape-controlled synthesis of Pt nanostructures and evaluation of catalytic and electrocatalytic performance
Sourov Ghosh and C. Retna Raj
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2013,3, 1078-1085
DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20652H, Paper

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Urine-fed microbial fuel cell powers mobile phone

Scientists  at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, have demonstrated that a commercially available mobile phone can be charged and powered with urine.

The availability of energy for communication when in remote areas can be a big problem. If you could charge your phone with your own readily available urine, the worry of running out of phone battery in a difficult situation is solved. This research also opens up lots of possibilities for the utilisation of waste for useful energy. The authors of this research told UWE News that they think their technology could be installed into domestic bathrooms to harness the urine and produce sufficient electricity to power showers, lighting or razors as well as mobile phones.

Microbial Fuel Cells use live microorganisms to turn organic matter into electricity. The group created a membrane-less microbial fuel cell, which was made out of ceramic material and used carbon-based electrodes.

Read the story in UWE Bristol News here…

Find out more about how this amazing microbial fuel cell works in the article recently published in PCCP:

Waste to Real Energy: the first MFC powered mobile phone
Ioannis Ieropoulos, Pablo Ledezma, Andrew Stinchcombe, George Papaharalabos, Chris Melhuish and John Greenman
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52889H

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PCCP Poster Prize at IMAMPC 2013

PCCP was delighted to sponser a poster prize at the International Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics and Chemistry (IMAMPC), which was held in Lille, France, on the 2-5th July 2013.

The selection committe, supervised by Helen J Fraser of The Open University, UK, chose Yansel Omar Guerrero Martinez, from INSTEC, Cuba, as the winner of the PCCP IMAMPC 2013 Best Poster Prize.

Yansel Omar Guerrero Martinez

PCCP Poster prize winner at IMAMPC 2013: Yansel Omar Guerrero Martinez, INSTEC, Cuba

IMAMPC 2013 PCCP

Poster award ceremony at IMAMPC

More about the winning poster…

Title: Development and application of a polarizable force-field for halides counter anions and lanthanides cations in aqueous solution

Coworkers:

YANSEL OMAR GUERRERO MARTÍNEZ (1), FLORENT RÉAL, VALÉRIE VALLET (2), BERND

SCHIMMELPFENNIG, MICHAEL TRUMM(3), AND MICHEL MASELLA (4)

(1) Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas.(INSTEC). Ave. Salvador Ayende, esq. Luaces. Quinta de los molinos. La Habana. Cuba

(2) Université Lille 1 (Sciences et Technologies), Laboratoire PhLAM, CNRS UMR 8523, CERLA, CNRS FR 2416, Bât P5, F-59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France

(3) Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung (INE), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Postfach 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany

(4) Laboratoire de Chimie du Vivant, Service d’ingénierie moléculaire des protéines, Institut de biologie et de technologies de Saclay, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France

Abstract:

The hydration of transition metals, lanthanides (Ln) and actinides (An) in aqueous solution is a topic that attracts the attention of many scientists as this process is of relevance to environmental problems and medicinal applications. Actinides have an environmental and toxicological interest since they are nuclear fuel wastes with both chemical and radiochemical toxicity, becoming extremely difficult to handle it from experimental point of view. In this context, a more quantitative use of the Ln/An analogy is desirable to develop theoretical approaches capable of reproduce the experimental data existing for the former and capable of predict macroscopic properties in the solvation of the latter.

In order to investigate hydration of lanthanide/actinide and halides counter ions[1], one of our goal is to develop a polarizable force-field model adjusted on state-of-the art ab initio calculations[1, 2, 3]. Another goal is to discuss the accuracy of the model by investigating the impact of the parametrization uncertainties in the bulk water model and in the metal-water interaction model on the molecular simulation results.

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