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 Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research.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

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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.

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PCCP is delighted to present issue 24, which includes a collection of articles on the theme of Hydrogen Interactions with Diamond.

The issue was Guest Edited by John Foord (University of Oxford) and Alon Hoffman (Technion Inst. Israel), and brings important areas of this large body of research together in a single issue, which focuses on the basic physical science which underlies the interaction of hydrogen with diamond materials.

Take a look at this great themed collection on Hydrogen Interactions with Diamond today!

Want to read more about our themed issues? Please visit the ‘Themed Issues’ page on our website.