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Homochirality and the origin of life – out now!

04 Jan 2011

PCCP Issue 3, 2011, is now online and it includes a collection of articles on the theme homochirality and the origin of life.

The themed issue is Guest Edited by Professor Seong Keun Kim, Professor Taekjip Ha and Professor Jean-Pierre Schermann, and is part of the PCCP biophysics and biophysical chemistry series.

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And coming soon:

Nano-bio: The interface between bio-systems and nano-devices

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Fluorine chemistry collection

14 Dec 2010

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the RSC Fluorine Interest group we have published a web themed issue on fluorine chemistry, Guest Edited by Veronique Gouverneur.

The collection includes articles from across several RSC journals, including this paper from PCCP:

Chemical reactions inside structured nano-environment: S_N2 vs. E2 reactions for the F^– + CH₃CH₂Cl system
Josefredo R. Pliego Jr.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01182G

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Multiply charged ions in the gas-phase – call for papers

06 Dec 2010

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.

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PCCP Web Collection: SERS

01 Dec 2010

PCCP Web Collection

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

You can now access some of our best content on SERS with just one click, and it’s free to read for a month!

This collection includes a mix of Perspective feature articles and papers from leading researchers like Richard van Duyne, Paul Mulvaney, Younan Xia and Volker Deckert. It also features articles from the Themed Issue New Frontiers in SERS, Guest Edited by Professor Pablo Etchegoin, who now joins Professor Zhong-Qun Tian as another SERS expert on the PCCP Advisory Board. A total of 33 articles are available for you to download for free now.

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Call for papers: Physics and chemistry of water and ice

24 Nov 2010

PCCP Themed Issue announcement

Physics and chemistry of water and ice

Guest Editors:

Carlos Vega, José Luis F. Abascal and Pablo Debenedetti

Submission deadline: 10 June 2011

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

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

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Physics and Chemistry of Cold Molecules

04 Nov 2010

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.

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Molecular Electronics: Call for papers

02 Nov 2010

New PCCP Themed Issue announced for summer 2011

“Molecular Electronics”

Guest Editors: Itamar Willner, Roi Baer, Francoise Remacle and Shahal Ilani

Submission deadline: 15th March 2011

Molecular electronics is a growing field in the past decade with enormous interest coming from experimentalists and theorists alike. The field is young, thus many developments are still under controversy on the one side, with enormous technological potential and new innovations on the other.

Molecular electronics interfaces physicists, chemists and biologists as it requires development of new synthetic techniques and novel analytical methods for assembling and characterizing complex structures such as organic transistors, biological sensors, DNA based molecular wires and molecular logic operations. Thus this expanding field is drawing contributions from a wide spectrum of basic scientific fields. The aim of this PCCP themed issue is to survey the state-of-the-art in this field.

Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research

Both 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

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See past PCCP Themed Issue here

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PCCP Themed Issue: Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects?

13 Oct 2010

Call for papers: Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects?

Deadline for Submission: 08 March 2011

A wide variety of weak hydrogen bonds at the limit of the classical definition play a very decisive role in the physico-chemical properties of molecular assemblies. In contrast to classical hydrogen bonds, the modeling of weak hydrogen bonds remains in its infancy, because it requires very high level electronic structure calculations and involves subtle influences of the environment and thermal excitation. A range of spectroscopic and other physico-chemical techniques have to be combined to make significant progress.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in summer 2011 and will be displayed at relevant international conferences to maximise the visibility of the work published, including the XIX Congress on “Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research” to be held in Göttingen in September 2011.

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

Both 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.

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TYC-Workshop on Energy Materials: on this week!

08 Sep 2010

The 1st TYC-Workshop on Energy Materials started yesterday at University College London, UK, and is set to be a very exciting meeting!

PCCP is sponsoring this meeting and will also be publishing an exciting issue on energy materials in the coming months, highlighting some of the great research being presented. Sign up for the PCCP e-alert today for future updates on this issue.

The meeting is organised by Jochen Blumberger and includes a host of top speakers including: Richard Catlow, Anthony Cheetham, James Durrant, Kit Bowen and many more!

Topics being covered this week include:

Photo-induced energy conversion
Hydrogen storage
Electrochemistry, Fuel Cells and Energy Storage

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Hydrogen Interactions with Diamond: call for papers

03 Sep 2010

PCCP high-profile themed issue announcement:

Hydrogen Interactions with Diamond

Submission deadline: 10 January 2010

Guest Editors: John Foord (University of Oxford) and Alon Hoffman (Technion Inst.)

Enormous interest has developed in the use of diamond as a functional material in recent years, with diverse applications in areas like optical windows, radiation detectors, thermal dissipation, high power electronics, NEMS, medical implants, electrochemistry, bioelectronics and biosensors. This in turn has focussed attention on understanding the basic physical, chemical, mechanical and interfacial properties of diamond materials, in a research field that spans physics, chemistry, materials science and biology. One of the central themes in this basic research is the interaction of hydrogen with diamond.

The purpose of this themed issue is therefore to bring important areas of this large body of research together in an issue of PCCP, which will focus on the basic physical science which underlies the interaction of hydrogen with diamond materials and will cover specific areas including:

Chemistry and structure of hydrogenated diamond surfaces
The role of hydrogen in growth chemistry
Electronic structure of diamond interfaces
Surface conductivity
Electron emission and Photoemission
Hydrogen plasma smoothing and etching
Electrochemistry
Diffusion
Hydrogen Defects in Diamond
Bulk electronic and optical properties

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

Please pass this information on to any relevant colleagues, or let us know if you have any suggestions of people to invite. The deadline for submissions to the themed issue is the 10th January 2011, though submissions before this date are of course welcomed.

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