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PCCP would like to wish all our Chinese friends a happy Chinese New Year!

新年快乐！兔年吉祥！

We hope you enjoy celebrating and we wish you every success in the year of the Rabbit!

ICCAS special collection

To highlight the great quality work published in PCCP from China, we have a special collection of papers from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Guest Edited by Professor Li-jun Wan.

Read this great ICCAS special collection today online!

• PCCP is a high-impact international journal and research from Chinese authors is very important
• We publish experimental and theoretical work of very high quality covering physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry
• Official high Impact Factor of 4.12, leading for general physical chemistry journals
• Fully indexed in SCI, ISI, JCR, MEDLINE and other leading databases. PCCP has a broad, community-spanning audience
• Academician Professor Li-jun Wan (ICCAS) is the PCCP Regional Editor for China

PCCP is pleased to announce a high-profile themed issue on multiply charged ions (MCIs) in the gas-phase, Guest Edited by Professor Stephen Price (University College London) and Dr Jana Roithová (Charles University, Prague).

Submit to this themed issue – Submission Deadline: 16 May 2011

Fifteen years ago gas-phase multiply-charged ions (MCIs) were viewed as chemical oddities.  However, the development of a wide variety of new experimental and theoretical methodologies now means that the unique and unusual properties of these species (both negatively and positively charged) have begun to be revealed: from reactions forming new dicationic rare gas compounds to supramolecular assembly of multiply-charged species in a mass spectrometer.

Our increased understanding of the properties of MCIs allows us to appreciate that their chemistry may be involved in media as varied as fusion plasmas and planetary ionospheres.  Scientists are now working on vast range of MCI projects, yet these seemingly rather disparate fields are united because, in all cases, the properties of the MCIs are critically determined by the subtle competition of electrostatic repulsion and chemical bonding.

This issue will highlight the parallel progress and common themes in the chemical physics and physical chemistry of MCIs.  The varied topics covered will generate an issue which will appeal to the broad spread of scientists involved with gas-phase MCIs: molecular and chemical physicists, spectroscopists and mass spectrometrists, physical chemists and even inorganic chemists.

Submission details

• You can submit via our online submissions service – please indicate your manuscript is intended for this themed issue.
• Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research. All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review
• This issue will be published in late 2011 anddisplayed at relevant conferences to maximise the visibility of the work published.

PCCP Themed Issue announcement

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in late 2011 and will be displayed at relevant international conferences to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Topics covered by the issue:

• Phase diagram of water
• Nucleation and crystal growth
• Liquid-liquid transition/supercooled water
• Hydrates
• Path integral methods
• Quantum chemistry of water
• Structure
• Interfaces
• Planetary science
• Dynamics
• Hydrophobicity/proteins
• Simulation
• Confined water
• Water in the atmosphere

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PCCP is delighted to announce an exciting forthcoming themed issue:

Physics and Chemistry of Cold Molecules
Guest Editors:
Professors Stefan Willitsch (University of Basel)
Olivier Dulieu (Université Paris-Sud XI)
Matthias Weidemüller (University of Heidelberg)
Roman Krems (University of British Columbia)

The themed issue will be published in 2011 and will be displayed at relevant conferences to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submission: 15 April 2011 – submit now

The field of cold and ultracold molecules is a very active research area which is rapidly evolving. The purpose of this themed issue is to present the latest exciting work in this dynamic area, with an emphasis on new physics and chemistry research made possible by the creation of cold and ultracold molecules.

Topics covered in this issue include:

•    Generation and quantum-state control of translationally (ultra)cold molecules and molecular ions
•    Theory and experiment of (ultra)cold collisions
•    (Ultra)cold chemistry
•    Field control of (ultra)cold molecules and (ultra)cold reactions
•    Spectroscopy of (ultra)cold molecules
•    Novel many-body physics with ultracold molecules
•    Coherence and decoherence at ultracold temperatures
•    Ultracold polyatomic molecules

Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research. Both Communications and Full Papers can be submitted for consideration. All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of PCCP.

The deadline for submissions to the themed issue is 15th April 2011, though submissions before this date are of course welcomed.

Manuscripts for this PCCP themed issue can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service. Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue.