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PCCP Honorary Board member William H. Miller awarded Ahmed Zewail Prize

Congratulations to PCCP Honorary Board member William H. Miller, who has been awarded the 2011 Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences, for his research into molecular collision theory and chemical reaction dynamics.

PCCP will be publishing a themed issue on Molecular Collision Dynamics, Guest Edited by Editorial Board members Piergiorgio Casavecchia and David Nesbitt – submit your paper before 08 November 2010!

Professor Bill Miller from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, will recieve the award at the 2011 Spring ACS Meeting in California – look out for Editor of PCCP, Philip Earis who will be attending the meeting and would love to meet you there!

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Nobel Laureate Yuan Tseh Lee joins PCCP Honorary Board

We are delighted to announce that renowned scientist Yuan Tseh Lee has joined the PCCP Honorary Board.

Yuan Tseh LeeLearn more about PCCP and our different Boards – which contain other Nobel Prize Laureates…

Professor Lee was the first Taiwanese to win the Nobel Prize – along with John Polanyi and Dudley R. Herschbach, they won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 “for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.”

Their ground-breaking work made it possible to analyze much larger and more complex chemical molecules than those previously studied.

Lee studied at the National Taiwan University and National Tsinghua University, and in 1962 moved to the University of California at Berkeley to complete his Ph.D, where he later became a professor of chemistry. In 1994 Professor Lee returned to his home country, Taiwan, to serve as President of Academia Sinica.

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SERS and SHINERS @ ISE 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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ISE 2010 – off to a great start!

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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Japan-UK Symposium introduced by CSJ President

Professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa, President of the Chemical Society Japan (CSJ) and PCCP Editorial Board member, kicked of the Japan-UK Symposium this morning with his introductory lecture highlighting the collaboration between the RSC and CSJ.

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The two day event on Catalysis for a Sustainable World, held in the Chemistry Centre in London, aims to bring together scientists working from the UK and Japan. It offers an opportunity for networking and international collaboration and will begin to strengthen links between the RSC and CSJ.

Richard Pike (CEO, RSC) also made an exciting announcement about the launch of a brand new journal from RSC Publishing – Catalysis Science & Technology!

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Nobel laureate and PCCP Honorary Board member talks to Chemistry World

Richard Ernst

Richard Ernst, PCCP Honorary Board

PCCP Honorary Board member Richard Ernst, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize for his work on NMR spectroscopy, talks to Chemistry World about his career, the future of NMR spectroscopy and his love of Tibetan art.


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