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The 242^nd ACS National Meeting started today in Denver, CO, USA, and the Physical Chemistry Division kicked off with a symposium on SERS which will run all week.

The Advances in SERS and Molecular Plasmonics symposium began with an exciting talk by Richard Van Duyne. His lecture entitled “Pushing the limits: Single molecule and single particle surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy”, followed by further talks on single molecule SERS and plasmonically-enhanced hot spots.

Read Richard van Duyne’s PCCP Perspective, which is from the recent PCCP web-themed issue on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering:

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
DOI: 10.1039/B904733F

Faraday Discussions 151: Hydrogen Storage Materials has now been published online

Take a look at this exciting volume today which covers the following themes:

• Theory and spectroscopic methods to understand hydrogenation/dehydrogenation mechanisms
• Novel approaches: hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of organic molecules, encapsulation of nanosized materials
• Chemical hydrogen
• Adsorbed/physisorbed hydrogen on or in MOFs and other materials with large surface area
• Applications including uses for automotives and novel battery materials

Highlights from the volume include:

Performance of a metal hydride store on the “Ross Barlow” hydrogen powered canal boat
A. I. Bevan, A. Züttel, D. Book and I. R. Harris
Faraday Discuss., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0FD00025F

Performance of a full-scale hydrogen-storage tank based on complex hydrides
Terry A. Johnson, Scott W. Jorgensen and Daniel E. Dedrick
Faraday Discuss., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0FD00017E

Hydrogen as a fuel for today and tomorrow: expectations for advanced hydrogen storage materials/systems research
Katsuhiko Hirose, Introductory Lecture
Faraday Discuss., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00099C

Read about the conference highlights and see photos from the meeting.

You can purchase this volume as an individual book through our website.

Artificial Photosynthesis: Faraday Discussion 155
5 – 7 September 2011
Edinburgh, UK

Registration deadline – 05 August 2011

Last chance to register for this exciting conference !

Confirmed speakers

• Graham Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Sir Richard Friend FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
• Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dirk Guldi, University of Erlangen , Germany
• Devens Gust, Arizona State University, USA
• Osamu Ishitani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Tom Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Stefan Matile, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
• Stenbjörn Styring, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

There is a growing conviction that the only real prospect for our long-term energy provision relies on the ability to collect and store sunlight in the form of chemical potential. The need for alternative fuels and reduction of excess carbon dioxide left over from our era of fossil fuel consumption, focuses the attention on the design of effective artificial photosynthetic systems. This is a growing global problem and it will soon become the dominant scientific issue.

Applying new knowledge to old problems: FD155 will focus on possible solutions to long-standing problems in the development of artificial synthesis. This topical and important area of science covers many disciplines. The combination of biology, chemistry, physics and theory makes for an exciting blend of discussion points.

Themes

• Electronic energy transfer
• Fuel production / carbon dioxide reduction
• Oxygen evolution
• Integrated photo-systems
• Electron transfer

Artificial Photosynthesis: Faraday Discussion 155
5 – 7 September 2011
Edinburgh, UK

Early bird registration and poster abstract deadline – 01 July 2011
Registration deadline – 05 August 2011

Submit a poster abstract for consideration or register for this exciting conference today!

Confirmed speakers

• Graham Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Sir Richard Friend FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
• Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dirk Guldi, University of Erlangen , Germany
• Devens Gust, Arizona State University, USA
• Osamu Ishitani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Tom Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Stefan Matile, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
• Stenbjörn Styring, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

There is a growing conviction that the only real prospect for our long-term energy provision relies on the ability to collect and store sunlight in the form of chemical potential. The need for alternative fuels and reduction of excess carbon dioxide left over from our era of fossil fuel consumption, focuses the attention on the design of effective artificial photosynthetic systems. This is a growing global problem and it will soon become the dominant scientific issue.

Applying new knowledge to old problems: FD155 will focus on possible solutions to long-standing problems in the development of artificial synthesis. This topical and important area of science covers many disciplines. The combination of biology, chemistry, physics and theory makes for an exciting blend of discussion points.

Themes

• Electronic energy transfer
• Fuel production / carbon dioxide reduction
• Oxygen evolution
• Integrated photo-systems
• Electron transfer

Faraday Discussion 156: Tribology
2 – 4 April 2012 
Southampton, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 3 June 2011 – submit now

Tribology is the essential science of all interacting surfaces in relative motion and affects our lives in many direct ways.

Tribology: FD156 will focus on advanced computational and experimental tribology, providing a forum for chemists, physicists, theoreticians, engineers and biomedical researchers within these themes:

• Future lubricated systems 
• Smart tribological surfaces 
• Predictive modelling 
• Biotribology       

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Professor Duncan Dowson (Introductory) – University of Leeds, UK
• Professor Nicholas Spencer (Closing) – ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Professor Jean-Michel Martin – Ecole Centrale De Lyon, France
• Dr Ian Taylor – Shell Global Solutions, UK
• Professor Jacob Klein – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Dr Liliane Léger – NRS & Université Paris-Sud 11, France
• Professor Pwt Evans – Cardiff University, UK
• Professor Roland Larsson – Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
• Professor John Fisher – University of Leeds, UK
• Professor Greg Sawyer – University of Florida, USA

Faraday Discussions are a long-established series of meetings which provide a unique international platform for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The Discussion is a dynamic forum for developing and exchanging exciting new ideas, and both the papers and discussion will be published in a final printed volume.

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 3 June 2011. We do hope that this conference is of interest to you and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year. 

Submit your oral abstract for Faraday Discussion 156: Tribology

Faraday Discussion 152: Gold
4 – 6 July 2011, Cardiff, UK

Registration deadline: 3 June 2011 – register today so you don’t miss out on this dynamic conference!

FD152 will focus on the origins of high catalytic activity observed with gold nanoparticles. The aim is to bring together the catalysis and surface science communities with materials scientists and theoreticians, so that new insights can be gained.

Speakers:

• Professor Masatake Haruta (Introductory) – Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Professor Martyn Poliakoff (Closing) – University of Nottingham
• Dr Mathias Brust – University of Liverpool
• Professor Charlie Campbell – Universityof Washington
• Professor Cynthia Friend – Harvard University
• Professor Wayne Goodman – Texas A&M University
• Professor Peijun Hu – Queen’s University Belfast
• Professor Laura Prati – Universita degli Studi di Milano
• Professor Pekka Pyykko – University of Helsinki
• Professor Vincent Rotello -Universityof Massachusetts Amherst

Themes:

• Gold catalysis at the gas solid interface
• Gold catalysis and materials science
• Theoretical insights on gold catalysis
• Gold catalysis and enhanced selectivity

Then please come and see us at the RSC Publishing stand (No. 11 – next to the refreshments table!)…

• talk to RSC staff about our journals
• browse our RSC books collection and get great discounts
• pick up free journal copies
• and enter our competition to win an i-pod nano!!

Looking forward to meeting you in Nice!