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We are delighted to announce that the PCCP themed issue on Physics and Chemistry of Cold Molecules has now been published online – take a look today!

The issue was Guest Edited by Olivier Dulieu, Roman Krems, Matthias Weidemüller and Stefan Willitsch.

The Physics and Chemistry of Cold Molecules themed issue features a broad range of papers and includes the following Perspective article:

Deceleration of supersonic beams using inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields
Stephen D. Hogan, Michael Motsch and Frédéric Merkt
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 18705

Take a look at the issue today!

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce a forthcoming high-profile themed issue:

“Interfaces with Ionic Liquids“

Guest Editor: Frank Endres

We invite you to submit a high quality manuscript of original, unpublished research with a focus on the interfaces of ionic liquids with gas/vacuum, solid surfaces and other liquids, both experimental and theoretical aspects.

Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2011.

This will be the official themed issue of the international Bunsentagung 2012 meeting on the theme of “Ionic Liquids” organised by the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft which takes place from 17-19 May 2012 in Leipzig, Germany.  The plenary speakers at the meeting are Ken Seddon, Masayoshi Watanabe, Doug MacFarlane and Cinzia Chiappe. We will be freely distributing the printed themed issue at this meeting, maximising the visibility and profile of all published papers.

All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the high standards of PCCP. Further details about PCCP can be found on our website www.rsc.org/pccp.

When you submit your article, please indicate that it is for the themed issue.

PCCP is delighted to present its current issue which contains a collection of articles on the theme of Molecular Electronics, Guest edited by Itamar Willner, Roi Baer, Francoise Remacle and Shahal Ilani.

The cover image of this issue features the work of Denis Jacquemin and colleagues on the combined effect of stacking and solvation on the spontaneous mutation in DNA (DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20946A).

Highlights in the issue include:

Perspective
Covalent networks through on-surface chemistry in ultra-high vacuum: state-of-the-art and recent developments
Grégory Franc and André Gourdon
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20700H

Communication
The origin of dips for the graphene-based DNA sequencing device
Yeonchoo Cho, Seung Kyu Min, Woo Youn Kim and Kwang S. Kim
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20760A

Broadening of the derivative discontinuity in density functional theory
F. Evers and P. Schmitteckert
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21247H

Browse this high-profile themed issue today!

Find out more about PCCP themed issues on our website.

PCCP themed issue: Hydrogen Bonding in Electronically Excited States
Guest Editors: Guang-Jiu Zhao and Ke-Li Han
(Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China)

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue ‘Hydrogen Bonding in Electronically Excited States’. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in 2012 and will be displayed at relevant international conferences in summer 2012 to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submissions: 05 December 2011

The hydrogen bonding has been recognized as one subject of contemporary research interests due to its prevalence and fundamental importance in various branches of science in the past century. To complement the recently published PCCP themed issue on ‘Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects’, Guest Edited by Wouter Herrebout (University of Antwerp) and Martin Suhm (University of Göttingen, this themed issue will focus on hydrogen bonding in electronically excited states, which are play an increasingly important role in many photo-physical processes and photochemical reactions.

This themed intends to collect the state-of-the-art contributions from a large number of top scientists in the field throughout the world, including the themes;

• excited-state hydrogen bonding structure and dynamics in gas phase and condensed phase
• influences of excited-state hydrogen bonding on various important photo-physical processes and photochemical reactionsas
• applications of excited-state hydrogen bonding in the vital fields such as fluorescent probes, light-driven molecular machines, optoelectronic functional materials and artificial photosynthesis.

Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service. Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research. Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue.

Submit to this themed issue

View the PCCP themed issue on ‘Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects’

PCCP themed issue:
Fragment and Localized Orbital Methods in Electronic Structure Theory
Guest Editors:
Gregory Beran (University of California at Riverside)
So Hirata (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue ‘Fragment and Localized Orbital Methods in Electronic Structure Theory’. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in 2012 and will be displayed at relevant international conferences in summer 2012 to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submissions: 28 November 2011

With broad and increasing interest in condensed-phase chemistry and physics, the past few years have seen remarkable progress in the development and application of new, accurate electronic structure methods that are applicable to chemistry in solution, molecular crystals, and biological systems. These achievements stem from both the development of new approaches for handling the large length-scales inherent in such systems (e.g. divide-and-conquer schemes and local correlation methods) and on new physical insights and algorithms that reduce the steep computational cost of calculating the important physical interactions accurately (e.g. symmetry-adapted perturbation theory). The combination of these approaches is effecting a rapid scientific transformation in which accurate quantum chemistry predictions are becoming feasible for complex systems.

By gathering works from these different areas, this themed issue will serve as a focal point that will highlight the tremendous progress that has been made and will help foster new ideas for future advances. The issue plans to cover both the latest methodological advances in the area and state-of-the-art applications to molecular crystals, proteins, nanomaterials, molecular excited states in solutions, and much more.

Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service. Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research. Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue.

Submit to this themed issue