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Frontiers in molecular simulation of solvated ions, molecules and interfaces PCCP themed issue now online and free to access

03 Jun 2020

We are delighted to announce that the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) themed issue Frontiers in molecular simulation of solvated ions, molecules and interfaces is now online and articles in the collection are free to access until the end of August 2020.

Predictive molecular simulation of condensed matter at finite temperature has come a long way from the first practical implementations of ab-initio or Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics thirty years ago.

Guest Edited by Professor Jochen Blumberger, Professor Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Professor Marialore Sulpizi and Professor Rodolphe Vuilleumier, this themed issue provides a representative snapshot of latest and upcoming techniques and their applications at the forefront of this research area with a specific focus on the simulation of solvated ions, molecules and interfaces.

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It includes:

Editorial
Frontiers in molecular simulation of solvated ions, molecules and interfaces
Jochen Blumberger, Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Marialore Sulpizi and Rodolphe Vuilleumier
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 10393-10396. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP90091E

Perspective
Tumbling with a limp: local asymmetry in water’s hydrogen bond network and its consequences
Hossam Elgabarty and Thomas D. Kühne
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 10397-10411. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06960G

Perspective
DFT modelling of explicit solid–solid interfaces in batteries: methods and challenges
Kevin Leung
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 10412-10425. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06485K

Communication
Temperature effects on the ionic conductivity in concentrated alkaline electrolyte solutions
Yunqi Shao, Matti Hellström, Are Yllö, Jonas Mindemark, Kersti Hermansson, Jörg Behler and Chao Zhang
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 10426-10430. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06479F

Paper
Benchmark and performance of long-range corrected time-dependent density functional tight binding (LC-TD-DFTB) on rhodopsins and light-harvesting complexes
Beatrix M. Bold, Monja Sokolov, Sayan Maity, Marius Wanko, Philipp M. Dohmen, Julian J. Kranz, Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Sebastian Höfener and Marcus Elstner
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 10500-10518. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP05753F

Paper
Raman spectrum and polarizability of liquid water from deep neural networks
Grace M. Sommers, Marcos F. Calegari Andrade, Linfeng Zhang, Han Wang and Roberto Car
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 10592-10602. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP01893G

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PCCP Editor’s Choice: Luis Bañares Selects Outstanding Articles. Read now for free

12 May 2020

Associate Editor Luis Bañares has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). Read them now for free until the end of August 2020!

Professor Luis Bañares is Chair of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Centre for Ultrafast Lasers at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain. His research interests are related to experimental and theoretical chemical reaction dynamics and femtochemistry. His work focuses on the understanding of fundamental chemical reactions and photodissociation processes at a molecular level.

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Paper
State-to-state photodissociation dynamics of CO₂ around 108 nm: the O(¹S) atom channel
Jiami Zhou, Zijie Luo, Jiayue Yang, Yao Chang, Zhiguo Zhang, Yong Yu, Qinming Li, Gongkui Cheng, Zhichao Chen, Zhigang He, Li Che, Shengrui Yu, Guorong Wu, Kaijun Yuan and Xueming Yang
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 6260-6265. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06919D

Paper
Formation of highly excited iodine atoms from multiphoton excitation of CH₃I
Kristján Matthíasson, Greta Koumarianou, Meng-Xu Jiang, Pavle Glodic, Peter C. Samartzis and Ágúst Kvaran
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 4984-4992. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06242D

Paper
Laser-induced alignment dynamics of gas phase CS₂ dimers
Adam S. Chatterley, Mia O. Baatrup, Constant A. Schouder and Henrik Stapelfeldt
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 3245-3253. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06260B

Paper
Photoelectron spectroscopy of boron-containing reactive intermediates using synchrotron radiation: BH₂, BH, and BF
P. Mukhopadhyay, D. Schleier, I. Fischer, J.-C. Loison, C. Alcaraz and G. A. Garcia
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 1027-1034. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06010C

Paper
Time-resolved formation of excited atomic and molecular states in XUV-induced nanoplasmas in ammonia clusters
Rupert Michiels, Aaron C. LaForge, Matthias Bohlen, Carlo Callegari, Andrew Clark, Aaron von Conta, Marcello Coreno, Michele Di Fraia, Marcel Drabbels, Paola Finetti, Martin Huppert, Veronica Oliver, Oksana Plekan, Kevin C. Prince, Stefano Stranges, Vít Svoboda, Hans Jakob Wörner and Frank Stienkemeier
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 7828-7834. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP00669F

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Gordon F. Kirkbright and Edward Steers Bursary Awards, 2021

04 May 2020

The Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award is a prestigious annual award that assists a promising early career scientist of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning. The fund for this bursary was established in 1985 as a memorial to Professor Gordon Kirkbright in recognition of his contributions to analytical spectroscopy and to science in general.

Owing to the generosity of one of our former trustees, an eminent atomic spectroscopist, Professor Edward B.M. Steers, we are now, from 2020, in the position of being able to award an annual Edward Steers bursary, in addition to the long standing Gordon Kirkbright bursary, to similarly assist a promising early scientist engaged in or utilising analytical spectroscopic techniques.

The ABS Trust defines early career as being either a student, or an employee in a non-tenured academic post or in industry, within 7 years of award of PhD excluding career breaks. The same conditions apply to each bursary.

Applications are invited for both the 2021 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary and the 2021 Edward Steers Bursary. Although both funds are administered by the ABS Trust, the Kirkbright award is not restricted to spectroscopists, but is open to all involved with or utilising analytical science-based techniques.

Application Forms can be downloaded via:

http://www.abstrust.org/kirkbright-and-steers-bursary-awards

or for further information visit:

http://www.abstrust.org/ or contact abstrustuk@gmail.com

The closing date for entries is 30 November 2020.

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Announcing Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Storage themed collection

30 Mar 2020

We are excited to announce an upcoming themed collection in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) on Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Storage with Guest Editors

John Doyle
Harvard University, USA

Anna Krylov (Associate Editor, PCCP)
University of Southern California, USA

Kang-Kuen Ni
Harvard University, USA

Quantum computing and information storage promise to revolutionize our information technology. Some basic theory of quantum computing has been established over the past two decades and researchers are on the cusp of quantum supremacy for truly useful systems. Yet, for quantum computing to become a reality we need to find a practical physical platform for realizing qubits with enough fidelity and depth to solve important problems. At present it is not clear what platform will succeed at this.

Molecules are a relative newcomer to the field (apart from the initial molecular NMR qubits that energized the field), but the power of such systems is easy to recognize with a myriad of internal quantum states and dipole coupling for quantum processing. The key goals are the ability to prepare, control, manipulate, and interrogate specific quantum states of interacting qubits, control their interactions and thus program an array of qubits. The current status quo in this field is reminiscent of the dawn of the first quantum revolution (which brought us GPS, MRI, and other amazing technologies): fundamental physics tells us that there are grounds for a powerful and transformative technology and informs us of what needs to be done to realize it, but the actual work and, consequently, the success of the entire endeavour is in the hands of scientists, who must find the right platform for qubits and the right physical tools to control them.

This topical collection will highlight physical chemistry/chemical physics aspects of quantum computing and quantum information storage and will welcome contributions from experimental and theoretical communities working on atomic, molecular, and optical aspects of emerging quantum information technology. Contributions focusing on application of quantum computing to physical problems are also welcome.

We welcome contributions of articles for this the collection including Communications, Full Papers and Perspectives. Please see our Author Guidelines for further information.

Deadline for submissions: 30 July 2020

Articles can be submitted via our website: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pccp. Please mention on submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed collection.

All articles will be subject to our fair and impartial peer-review process in the normal way. Accepted articles will be published online in a citeable form as soon as they are ready.

Please contact the Editorial Office with any questions you may have.

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Outstanding Reviewers for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in 2019

27 Mar 2020

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Dr Anastasia Bochenkova, Moscow State University, ORCID: 0000-0003-4101-3564

Professor Lin Du, Shandong University, ORCID: 0000-0001-8208-0558

Dr Heike Fliegl, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, ORCID: 0000-0002-7541-115X

Dr Siddharth Gautam, The Ohio State University, ORCID: 0000-0003-1443-5382

Dr Sorana Ionescu, University of Bucharest, ORCID: 0000-0001-8171-7588

Dr Ivan Ljubic, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, ORCID: 0000-0002-3395-7293

Dr Alessio Petrone, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, ORCID: 0000-0003-2232-9934

Dr Dennis Salahub, University of Calgary, ORCID: 0000-0002-9848-3762

Dr Martin Suhm, Georg-August-Universität Gottingen, ORCID: 0000-0001-8841-7705

Dr Minglei Sun, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0001-5105-0065

Dr Kohei Tada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0003-1150-8611

Dr Keisuke Takahashi, Hokkaido University, ORCID: 0000-0002-9328-1694

Professor C. Torres-Torres, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, ORCID: 0000-0001-9255-2416

Professor Bryan Wong, University of California Riverside, ORCID: 0000-0002-3477-8043

Dr Yang-Xin Yu, Tsinghua University, ORCID 0000-0002-7677-3427

We would also like to thank the PCCP board and the physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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13th Chemical Physics Congress Conference

02 Mar 2020

The 13^th Chemical Physics Congress will take place at Elazig (Harput), Turkey on 15-16 October 2020 on a UNESCO World Heritage Village (more information about the old city Harput is here).

13^th Chemical Physics Congress has the qualification to carry the continuity of biennially organized meetings in which the advances and applications are shared in experimental and computational areas. Confirmed speakers are:

Millard AlexanderUniversity of Maryland, United States
Vincenzo AquilantiUniversita di Perugia, Italy
Doros TheodorouN. T. University of Athens, Greece
Octavio RonceroCSIC, Spain
François LiqueUniversite du Havre, France
Cecilia ColettiUniversità di Chieti, Italy
Piotr ŻuchowskiNicolaus C. University, Poland
Viktorya AviyenteBoğaziçi University, Turkey
Ersin YurtseverKoç University, Turkey
Şefik SüzerBilkent University, Turkey
Mine YurtseverITU, Turkey

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics are delighted to be providing poster prizes together with book vouchers.

Please see the conference website for more details here.

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XFELs: cutting edge X-ray light for chemical and material sciences PCCP themed issue now online and free to access

25 Feb 2020

We are delighted to announce that the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) themed issue XFELs: cutting edge X-ray light for chemical and material sciences is now online and free to access until the end of May 2020.

XFELs (X-ray free electron lasers) provide a coherent, monochromatic and ultra-short pulse X-ray light. This enables experiments into the ultrafast dynamics of electron excitation and chemical reactions, and coherent imaging of materials.

Guest Edited by Professor Kiyotaka Asakura, Professor Kelly Gaffney,Dr Chris Milne and Dr Makina Yabashi, this collection reviews the very recent achievements of XFELs in chemical and material sciences.

Read the full issue online
It includes:

Editorial
XFELs: cutting edge X-ray light for chemical and material sciences
Kiyotaka Asakura, Kelly J. Gaffney, Christopher Milne and Makina Yabashi
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 2612-2614. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP90304F

Paper
Direct observation of the electronic states of photoexcited hematite with ultrafast 2p3d X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
Ahmed S. M. Ismail, Yohei Uemura, Sang Han Park, Soonnam Kwon, Minseok Kim, Hebatalla Elnaggar, Federica Frati, Yasuhiro Niwa, Hiroki Wadati, Yasuyuki Hirata, Yujun Zhang, Kohei Yamagami, Susumu Yamamoto, Iwao Matsuda, Ufuk Halisdemir, Gertjan Koster, Bert M. Weckhuysen and Frank M. F. de Groot
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 2685-2692. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03374B

Paper
Resolving structures of transition metal complex reaction intermediates with femtosecond EXAFS
Alexander Britz, Baxter Abraham, Elisa Biasin, Tim Brandt van Driel, Alessandro Gallo, Angel T. Garcia-Esparza, James Glownia, Anton Loukianov, Silke Nelson, Marco Reinhard, Dimosthenis Sokaras and Roberto Alonso-Mori
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 2685-2692. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03374B

Paper
Design of a liquid cell toward three-dimensional imaging of unidirectionally-aligned particles in solution using X-ray free-electron lasers
Akihiro Suzuki, Takashi Kimura, Ying Yang, Yoshiya Niida, Akiko Nishioka, Tatsuro Tachibana, Masashi Takei, Kensuke Tono, Makina Yabashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tairo Oshima, Yoshitaka Bessho, Yasumasa Joti and Yoshinori Nishino
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 2622-2628. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03658J

Paper
Core–valence-separated coupled-cluster-singles-and-doubles complex-polarization-propagator approach to X-ray spectroscopies
Rasmus Faber and Sonia Coriani
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 2642-2647. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03696B

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The 11th conference on Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions (IBBI)

16 Jan 2020

The 11th conference on Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions (IBBI) will take place from 19-24 April 2020 in Bad Duerkheim, Germany. Scientists from all over the world working in the fields of spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and theory interested in isolated biomolecules meet for exciting discussions and exchange.

The early registration deadline is 31 January 2020 and the abstract submission will be possible until 28 February 2020.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Analyst are delighted to be providing poster prizes together with book vouchers.

Please see the conference website for more details www.ibbi2020.de

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New PCCP Associate Editor, Prabal Maiti

10 Jan 2020

We are delighted to welcome Prabal Maiti as our newest Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Associate Editor.

Prabal Maiti, Indian Institute of Science

Prabal K. Maiti is Professor and currently the chair in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He works in the area of Multiscale Modelling of Soft and Bio-materials. His major research goal is to pursue theoretical and numerical modelling connecting molecular and macroscopic length scales to improve basic understanding of various soft-matter and biological systems, both from a fundamental and an applied point of view. Areas of current research interest include structure and dynamics of hyperbranched and conjugated polymer, charge transport in molecular systems, DNA-based nanotechnology, and confined fluid. Prof Maiti received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from IIT, Kanpur, India followed by postdoctoral stays at MPIP, Mainz, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Caltech, USA. He is a fellow of Indian academy of Science and recipient of Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and Fulbright fellowship.

Submit your best work to Prabal now.

Read Prabal’s latest Papers in PCCP here:

Tuning molecular fluctuation to boost the conductance in DNA based molecular wires
Saientan Bag and Prabal K. Maiti
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 23514-23520. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03589C

Remarkable similarity of force induced dsRNA conformational changes to stretched dsDNA and their detection using electrical measurements
Abhishek Aggarwal, Saientan Bag and Prabal K. Maiti
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 28920-28928. DOI: 10.1039/C8CP03574A

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PCCP Editor’s Choice: Anna Krylov Selects Outstanding Articles. Read now for free

17 Dec 2019

Associate Editor Anna Krylov has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). Read them now for free until the end of March 2020!

Anna Krylov is the Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California. Her research is focused on theoretical modelling of open-shell and electronically excited species. She develops robust black-box methods to describe complicated multi-configurational wave functions in single-reference formalisms, the spin-flip approach, many-body theories for describing metastable electronic states, and tools for spectroscopy modelling. Using the tools of computational chemistry, and in collaboration with experimental laboratories, Krylov investigates the role that radicals and electronically excited species play in combustion, gas- and condensed-phase chemistry, solar energy, bioimaging, and quantum information science.

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Paper
Considerable matrix shift in the electronic transitions of helium-solvated cesium dimer cation Cs₂He ⁺_n
Lorenz Kranabetter, Nina K. Bersenkowitsch, Paul Martini, Michael Gatchell, Martin Kuhn, Felix Laimer, Arne Schiller, Martin K. Beyer, Milan Ončák and Paul Scheier
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 25362-25368. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP04790E

Paper
A Bayesian approach to NMR crystal structure determination
Edgar A. Engel, Andrea Anelli, Albert Hofstetter, Federico Paruzzo, Lyndon Emsley and Michele Ceriotti
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 23385-23400. DOI: 10.1039/ C9CP04489B

Paper
Asymptotic behavior of the Hartree-exchange and correlation potentials in ensemble density functional theory
Tim Gould, Stefano Pittalis, Julien Toulouse, Eli Kraisler and Leeor Kronik
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 19805-19815. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03633D

Paper
Beyond the Coulson–Fischer point: characterizing single excitation CI and TDDFT for excited states in single bond dissociations
Diptarka Hait, Adam Rettig and Martin Head-Gordon
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 21761-21775. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP04452C

Paper
Metadynamics for automatic sampling of quantum property manifolds: exploration of molecular biradicality landscapes
Joachim O. Lindner and Merle I. S. Röhr
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 24716-24722. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP05182A

Paper
Multistate hybrid time-dependent density functional theory with surface hopping accurately captures ultrafast thymine photodeactivation
Shane M. Parker, Saswata Roy and Filipp Furche
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 18999-19010. DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03127H

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