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SERS and SHINERS @ ISE 2010

28 Sep 2010

After a great first day, ISE 2010 continues to host a vast array of top-quality electrochemistry.

This morning I heard a very interesting talk by Zhong-Qun Tian, PCCP Advisory Board member, on shelled-nanoparticle-based SERS. Shell-insulated nanoparticle enhanced Raman spectroscopy, or ‘SHINERS’, is a new technique which Tian is developing, which overcomes many of the drawbacks encountered with tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS).

Read some recent PCCP Perspective review articles in this area:

Tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) and high-resolution bio nano-analysis—a comparison
Tanja Deckert-Gaudig and Volker Deckert
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 12040-12049

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of dyes: from single molecules to the artists’ canvas
Kristin L. Wustholz, Christa L. Brosseau, Francesca Casadio and Richard P. Van Duyne
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 7350-7359

A perspective on single molecule SERS: current status and future challenges
P. G. Etchegoin and E. C. Le Ru
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2008, 10, 6079-6089

Also, view the PCCP themed issue on SERS for more great research in this area.

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Rate coefficients for OH + acetone

28 Sep 2010

‘HOT’ Communication article – read it now:

Dwayne E. Heard (Chair of the Faraday Discussions Standing Committee on Conferences) and colleagues show that low temperature measurements reveal a dramatic negative temperature dependence to the rate coefficients for the OH + acetone reaction.

Observation of a large negative temperature dependence for rate coefficients of reactions of OH with oxygenated volatile organic compounds studied at 86–112 K
Robin J. Shannon, Sally Taylor, Andrew Goddard, Mark A. Blitz and Dwayne E. Heard
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00918K

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ISE 2010 – off to a great start!

27 Sep 2010

Greetings from the 61st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electochemistry (ISE 2010) in Nice, France!

So far the conference has got off to a great start. It began this morning with a very warm welcome from ISE President, Rob Hillman, who is also on the PCCP Advisory Board. Rob highlighted the broad and multi-disciplinary scope of this year’s conference ‘Electrochemistry from Biology to Physics’.

This morning saw a focus on bioelectrochemistry, with oral presentations from many of the authors from PCCP’s recently published themed issue on bioelectrochemistry. These included Phil Bartlett, Ernesto Julio Calvo, Elana Ferapontova and also one of the Guest Editors of the issue, Nicolas Mano from Bordeaux. View this great issue here. One hot topic that’s come up a lot already this morning is enzyme based biofuel cells.

Watch out for more updates from ISE 2010…

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2011 Physical Chemistry Prizes and Awards – Nominations now open

23 Sep 2010

The RSC currently presents around 60 prestigious Prizes and Awards annually to scientists in all the main chemical science disciplines allowing for the greatest range of scientists to be recognised for their work; individuals, teams and organisations working across the globe.

Physical Chemistry is one of the nine categories of awards, which has 16 Prizes and Awards including the prestigious Spiers Memorial Award, Marlow Award, Faraday Lectureship Prize and the three Centenary Prizes.

Our Prizes and Awards represent the dedication and outstanding achievements in the chemicals sciences and are a platform to showcase inspiring science to gain the recognition deserved.

Do you know someone who has made a significant contribution to advancing the chemical sciences?

View our full list of Prizes and Awards and use the online system to nominate yourself or colleagues.

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Second harmonic generation imaging – biological dyes

13 Sep 2010

PCCP “Perspective“ – read this ‘HOT’ article today

Second harmonic generation imaging needs better chromophores. In this Perspective, Koen Clays and colleagues consider structure–function relationships and evaluate methods of obtaining brighter SHG images.

Dyes for biological second harmonic generation imaging
James E. Reeve, Harry L. Anderson and Koen Clays
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C003720F

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Nanomaterials in industrial catalysis

10 Sep 2010

PCCP “Perspective” – read it today

Emerging approaches towards stabilization of metal nanoparticles are key for the application of nanomaterials in industrial catalysis. These approaches are discussed in this high-profile feature review article.

Stabilizing metal nanoparticles for heterogeneous catalysis
Anmin Cao, Rongwen Lu and Götz Veser
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00729C

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TYC-Workshop on Energy Materials: on this week!

08 Sep 2010

The 1st TYC-Workshop on Energy Materials started yesterday at University College London, UK, and is set to be a very exciting meeting!

PCCP is sponsoring this meeting and will also be publishing an exciting issue on energy materials in the coming months, highlighting some of the great research being presented. Sign up for the PCCP e-alert today for future updates on this issue.

The meeting is organised by Jochen Blumberger and includes a host of top speakers including: Richard Catlow, Anthony Cheetham, James Durrant, Kit Bowen and many more!

Topics being covered this week include:

Photo-induced energy conversion
Hydrogen storage
Electrochemistry, Fuel Cells and Energy Storage

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Ionisable solutes partition into octanol

03 Sep 2010

‘HOT’ PCCP article – read it now:

This paper looks at ionisable solutes partition into octanol as ions and ion pairs, they discover that log P for a neutral species and the ion is not constant.

The transfer of neutral molecules, ions and ionic species from water to wet octanol
Michael H. Abraham and William E. Acree, Jr.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00695E

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Kinetics of solid oxide fuel cells

02 Sep 2010

Read this just published PCCP Perspective article by Wolfgang Bessler and colleagues:

Model anodes and anode models for understanding the mechanism of hydrogen oxidation in solid oxide fuel cells
Wolfgang G. Bessler, Marcel Vogler, Heike Störmer, Dagmar Gerthsen, Annika Utz, André Weber and Ellen Ivers-Tiffée
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00541J

This article reviews and presents new results on mechanistic modeling and experimental analysis of the kinetics of SOFC anodes.

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Water in biological systems – issue out this week

01 Sep 2010

Issue 35 is part of the PCCP themed issues series on biophysics and biophysical chemistry and contains a collection of articles on the theme ‘Water in biological systems‘, including a Perspective article on the evolution of DNA and a paper on the kinetic spectroscopy of hemoglobin by Robert Goldbeck: