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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) publishes high impact Communications on the most important new research in areas across the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. PCCP is proud to be a Society journal and is co-owned by 17 national chemical societies.

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Read a selection of our high impact Communications:

The development of direct multicolour fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy: Towards a new tool for tracking complex biomolecular events in real-time
Holly M. Wobma, Megan L. Blades, Ekaterina Grekova, Dylan L. McGuire, Kun Chen, Warren C. W. Chan and David T. Cramb
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23278B

Mesoporous carbon capsules as electrode materials in electrochemical double layer capacitors
Shanthi Murali, Daniel R. Dreyer, Patricia Valle-Vigón, Meryl D. Stoller, Yanwu Zhu, Cornelio Morales, Antonio B. Fuertes, Christopher W. Bielawski and Rodney S. Ruoff
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02557G

Layering and shear properties of an ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate, confined to nano-films between mica surfaces
Susan Perkin, Tim Albrecht and Jacob Klein
DOI: 10.1039/B920571C

Nanoparticle-coated separators for lithium-ion batteries with advanced electrochemical performance
Jason Fang, Antonios Kelarakis, Yueh-Wei Lin, Chi-Yun Kang, Ming-Huan Yang, Cheng-Liang Cheng, Yue Wang, Emmanuel P. Giannelis and Li-Duan Tsai
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22017A

A liposome-based energy conversion system for accelerating the multi-enzyme reactions
Ryuhei Matsumoto, Masaya Kakuta, Taiki Sugiyama, Yoshio Goto, Hideki Sakai, Yuichi Tokita, Tsuyonobu Hatazawa, Seiya Tsujimura, Osamu Shirai and Kenji Kano
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00556H

2D assembly of gold–PNIPAM core–shell nanocrystals
Sarah Jaber, Matthias Karg, Anthony Morfa and Paul Mulvaney
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02494E

CVD graphene electrochemistry: the role of graphitic islands
Dale A. C. Brownson and Craig E. Banks
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21978B

The importance of surface morphology in controlling the selectivity of polycrystalline copper for CO₂ electroreduction
Wei Tang, Andrew A. Peterson, Ana Sofia Varela, Zarko P. Jovanov, Lone Bech, William J. Durand, Søren Dahl, Jens K. Nørskov and Ib Chorkendorff
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22700A

In silico free energy predictions for ionic liquid-assisted exfoliation of a graphene bilayer into individual graphene nanosheets
Gary A Baker
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40824D

Electrospinning of chitosan derivative nanofibers with structural stability in an aqueous environment
Ashleigh Cooper, Narayan Bhattarai, Forrest M. Kievit, Michael Rossol and Miqin Zhang
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02909B

Visualisation of electrochemical processes at optically transparent carbon nanotube ultramicroelectrodes (OT-CNT-UMEs)
Agnieszka Rutkowska, Tahani M. Bawazeer, Julie V. Macpherson and Patrick R. Unwin
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02804E

Strong location dependent surface enhanced Raman scattering on individual gold semishell and nanobowl particles
Jian Ye, Chang Chen, Liesbet Lagae, Guido Maes, Gustaaf Borghs and Pol Van Dorpe
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00872A

Nanoreactors’ for photocatalytic H₂ evolution in oil–water biphase systems
Jiehua Liu, Xiangfeng Wei, Yaolun Yu, Xin Wang, Wei-Qiao Deng and Xue-Wei Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01396J

Fluorescence energy transfer efficiency in labeled yeast cytochrome c: a rapid screen for ion biocompatibility in aqueous ionic liquids
Sheila N. Baker, Hua Zhao, Siddharth Pandey, William T. Heller, Frank V. Bright and Gary A. Baker
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02345K

Impact of surface mechanics on the reactivity of electrodes
J. Weissmüller, R. N. Viswanath, L. A. Kibler and D. M. Kolb
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01742F

On the proton conductivity in pure and gadolinium doped nanocrystalline cerium oxide
Mona Shirpour, Giuliano Gregori, Rotraut Merkle and Joachim Maier
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01702G

Salting out in organic solvents: a new route to carbon nanotube bundle engineering
Maxim V. Fedorov, Raz N. Arif, Andrey I. Frolov, Martin Kolar, Anastasia O. Romanova and Aleksey G. Rozhin
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21440C

Electrical conductivity in patterned silver–mesoporous titania nanocomposite thin films: towards robust 3D nano-electrodes
Eduardo D. Martínez, Leticia Granja, Martín G. Bellino and Galo J. A. A. Soler-Illia
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00824A

Charge transfer kinetics in CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cells
Eugenia Martínez-Ferrero, Ivan Mora Seró, Josep Albero, Sixto Giménez, Juan Bisquert and Emilio Palomares
DOI: 10.1039/B924970B

“Cosmetic electrochemistry”: the facile production of graphite microelectrode ensembles
Nadeem A. Choudhry, Rashid O. Kadara and Craig E. Banks
DOI: 10.1039/B923246J

Dielectrophoretic trapping of DNA-coated gold nanoparticles on silicon based vertical nanogap devices
Sebastian Strobel, Ralph A. Sperling, Bernhard Fenk, Wolfgang J. Parak and Marc Tornow
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02718A

Nitrogen-doped coatings on carbon nanotubes and their stabilizing effect on Pt nanoparticles
Xenia Tuaev, Jens Peter Paraknowitsch, René Illgen, Arne Thomas and Peter Strasser
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40760D

Application of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy to the study of SOFC electrode surfaces
Xiaxi Li, Kevin Blinn and Meilin Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40091J

You can find many more excellent Communications on our website.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Advisory Board member Professor Elangannan Arunan, an expert in the field of bonding, reaction kinetics and dynamics, has picked his favourite articles recently published in this area in PCCP.

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Perspectives

The role of weak hydrogen bonds in chiral recognition
Debora Scuderi, Katia Le Barbu-Debus and A. Zehnacker
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20987F

Proton transfer and polarity changes in ionic liquid–water mixtures: a perspective on hydrogen bonds from ab initio molecular dynamics at the example of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate–water mixtures—Part 1
Martin Brehm, Henry Weber, Alfonso S. Pensado, Annegret Stark and Barbara Kirchner
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23983C

Original research

Molecular geometries of H₂S ICF₃ and H₂O ICF₃ characterised by broadband rotational spectroscopy
Susanna L. Stephens, Nicholas R. Walker and Anthony C. Legon
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22339A

Infrared spectra of the protonated neurotransmitter histamine: competition between imidazolium and ammonium isomers in the gas phase
Anita Lagutschenkov, Judith Langer, Giel Berden, Jos Oomens and Otto Dopfer
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21681C

A π-stacked phenylacetylene dimer
Surajit Maity, G. Naresh Patwari, Robert Sedlak and Pavel Hobza
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20677J

Experimentally measured permanent dipoles induced by hydrogen bonding. The Stark spectrum of indole–NH₃
Adam J. Fleisher, Justin W. Young and David W. Pratt
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23902G

Infrared spectrum of the 2-chloroethyl radical in solid para-hydrogen
Jay C. Amicangelo, Barbara Golec, Mohammed Bahou and Yuan-Pern Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22524C

Experimental and modeling study of carbon suboxide decomposition behind reflected shock waves
M. Aghsaee, H. Böhm, S. H. Dürrstein, M. Fikri and C. Schulz
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22044F

Exploring microsolvation of the anesthetic propofol
Iker Leon, Emilio J. Cocinero, Judith Millán, Sander Jaeqx, Anouk M. Rijs, Alberto Lesarri, Fernando Castaño and José A. Fernández
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23583H

Low-temperature combustion chemistry of biofuels: pathways in the initial low-temperature (550 K–750 K) oxidation chemistry of isopentanol
Oliver Welz, Judit Zádor, John D. Savee, Martin Y. Ng, Giovanni Meloni, Ravi X. Fernandes, Leonid Sheps, Blake A. Simmons, Taek Soon Lee, David L. Osborn and Craig A. Taatjes
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23248K

You can find many more excellent articles on our website.

US-based scientists Jinquan Chen and Bern Kohler have studied the excited-state dynamics of 5 xanthine derivatives. The compounds display ultrashort excited state lifetimes – analogous to adenine and guanine – and the authors conclude that these compounds may be candidates for the building blocks of life on prebiotic Earth.

Read this fascinating PCCP paper today:

Ultrafast nonradiative decay by hypoxanthine and several methylxanthines in aqueous and acetonitrile solution
Jinquan Chen and Bern Kohler
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41296A