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Ionic liquids are pretty self explanatory; they are ionic materials in a liquid state. In a ‘normal’ liquid, interactions are usually governed by Van de Waals or H-bonding forces. In ionic liquids it is ionic bonding interactions which dominate, meaning ionic liquids possess some interesting and unique properties.

The field of ionic liquids grew after Paul Walden’s observations of ethylammonium nitrate in 1914,¹ since then the study and use of ionic liquids has grown phenomenally, with applications in analytics, biology, electrochemistry, physical chemistry, engineering, solvents and catalysis.

The academic and industrial interest in ionic liquids has thrown up some remarkable discoveries, particularly in recent years, so to keep you up to date with latest break-through research in the field we have collected these high quality articles which are free to access!*

Click here for the full list of free articles

PCCP is delighted to present issue 25 which includes a collection of articles on the theme of Hydrogen bonding in electronically excited states, Guest Edited by Guang-Jiu Zhao and Ke-Li Han (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China).

Hydrogen bonding has been recognized as an important interest in recent research due to its prevalence and fundamental importance in various branches of science in the past century.

To complement the 2011 PCCP themed issue on ‘Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects?‘, this themed issue will focus on hydrogen bonding in electronically excited states, which play an increasingly important role in many photo-physical processes and photochemical reactions.

The two cover images were provided by Krishnamoorthy and colleagues with the Perspective on excited state intramolecular charge transfer and Jeffrey Reimers and Zheng-Li Cai highlighting their Perspective on the hydrogen bonding and reactivity of water to azines.

As well as high quality new research, the issue also contains a collection of high-profile Perspective review articles:

The role of hydrogen bonding in excited state intramolecular charge transfer
Francis A. S. Chipem, Anasuya Mishra and G. Krishnamoorthy
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23879A

Hydrogen bonding and reactivity of water to azines in their S1 (n,π*) electronic excited states in the gas phase and in solution
Jeffrey R. Reimers and Zheng-Li Cai
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP24040H

Excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT): from principal photophysics to the development of new chromophores and applications in fluorescent molecular probes and luminescent materials
Jianzhang Zhao, Shaomin Ji, Yinghui Chen, Huimin Guo and Pei Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23144A

Excited state dynamics and catalytic mechanism of the light-driven enzyme protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase
Nigel S. Scrutton, Marie Louise Groot and Derren J. Heyes
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23789J

Hydrogen bonding of excited states in supramolecular host–guest inclusion complexes
Brian D. Wagner
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40310B

There is still time to submit an article to the PCCP themed issue on “Organic electronics – new physical chemistry insight”.

Guest Editors: Prof. Wenping Hu (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Henning Sirringhaus (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University) and Prof. Yutai Tao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan).

Deadline for Submissions: 14^th May, 2012

Organic electronics has attracted the world’s attention due to the great promise of organic electronic devices for practical applications, from organic light-emitting diodes to organic solar cells and field-effect transistors as well as other new relevant fields. Key challenges in this field include the low mobility of organic semiconductors, low stability of organic devices, the role of interfaces and device physics etc. And a lack of understanding of the structure–property relationships of organic semiconductors still hampers their rational design.

This themed issue will highlight the tremendous progress that has been made in this field and will help foster new ideas for future advances in solving the physical chemistry challenges of organic electronics.

• Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service
• Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research
• Communications and full papers can be submitted for consideration, which will be subject to rigorous peer review
• Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue

PCCP themed issue: Organic electronics – new physical chemistry insight

Guest Editors: Prof. Wenping Hu (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Henning Sirringhaus (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University) and Prof. Yutai Tao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan).

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue ‘Organic electronics – new physical chemistry insight’. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in 2012 and will receive great exposure, and get significant promotion.

PCCP is a high-impact, community spanning, international journal publishing work of the highest quality in the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.

Deadline for Submissions: 14^th May, 2012

Organic electronics has attracted the world’s attention due to the great promise of organic electronic devices for practical applications, from organic light-emitting diodes to organic solar cells and field-effect transistors as well as other new relevant fields.

Key challenges in this field include the low mobility of organic semiconductors, low stability of organic devices, the role of interfaces and device physics etc. And a lack of understanding of the structure–property relationships of organic semiconductors still hampers their rational design.

This themed issue will highlight the tremendous progress that has been made in this field and will help foster new ideas for future advances in solving the physical chemistry challenges of organic electronics.

• Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service

• Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research

• Communications and full papers can be submitted for consideration, which will be subject to rigorous peer review

• Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue

Further details about PCCP can be found at www.rsc.org/pccp.