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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Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research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

Spread the word!

Don’t miss the submission deadline

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.

Pass this invitation on to any relevant colleagues!

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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Water in biological systems – issue out this week

01 Sep 2010

Issue 35 is part of the PCCP themed issues series on biophysics and biophysical chemistry and contains a collection of articles on the theme ‘Water in biological systems‘, including a Perspective article on the evolution of DNA and a paper on the kinetic spectroscopy of hemoglobin by Robert Goldbeck:

The possible roles of water in the prebiotic chemical evolution of DNA
Shuxun Cui
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 10147-10153

Kinetic spectroscopy of heme hydration and ligand binding in myoglobin and isolated hemoglobin chains: an optical window into heme pocket water dynamics
Robert A. Goldbeck et al.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 10270-10278

Read more about the PCCP biophysics and biophysical chemistry series, with the following issues already available:

• Biomolecular structures: from isolated molecules to living cells
• Molecular Mechanisms of the Photostability of Life

Also, you can submit to our upcoming ‘Nano-bio’ themed issue before the 06 December 2010.

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Physics of DNA: HOT Perspective

20 Aug 2010

Just published, read it now

Physics of DNA: unravelling hidden abilities encoded in the structure of ‘the most important molecule’

A. A. Kornyshev, PCCP, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C004107F

A qualitative account on various aspects of the effect of DNA structure on DNA–DNA interactions and related phenomena, presented without any sophisticated ‘algebra’.

Read also about the PCCP Biophysical series, with the following issues already available:

• Biomolecular structures: from isolated molecules to living cells
• Molecular Mechanisms of the Photostability of Life

Also, submit to our upcoming ‘Nano-bio’ themed issue before the 06 December 2010

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Multiscale Modeling themed issue: call for papers

19 Aug 2010

PCCP is delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue on Multiscale Modeling, which will be Guest Edited by Professors Matthias Bickelhaupt, Peter Bolhuis and Lucas Visscher (Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling, VU University). It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

Submission Deadline: 13 December 2010
Submit a paper

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

While multiscale modeling is already an established approach in some areas of physics and material science, its application in physical chemistry and chemical physics is still emerging. Within these disciplines, the approach connects the established fields of quantum chemistry, atomistic molecular dynamics, computational material science and bioinformatics.

Multiscale modeling can be roughly defined as the concurrent study of the different time and length scales relevant for complex chemical, physical or biological processes. The significance of such an integral view for important processes such as photosynthesis, protein folding, DNA replication, catalysis, self-organization in soft matter, etc. is clear. With issues in multiscale modeling primarily discussed in the literature of the parent fields, cross-fertilization between the different fields is still limited. This PCCP themed issue will bring together papers that address the multiscale aspect of various applications and functions and will act as a reference point to researchers new to this developing field.

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.

Please do pass this invitation 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 13th December 2010, though submissions before this date are of course welcomed.

Matthias Bickelhaupt, Peter Bolhuis and Lucas Visscher
Guest Editors

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Deadline Reminder: Single-Molecule Optics themed issue

12 Aug 2010

The submission deadline for the PCCP themed issue on Single-Molecule Optical Studies of Soft and Complex Matter is fast approaching… submit your paper for this exciting issue Guest Edited by Professor Michel Orrit (Leiden University).

Submission deadline: 03 September 2010

Submit your paper now via our online submission service

The aim of this issue is to have a comprehensive collection of articles in the expanding field of single-molecule optical studies, with a particular emphasis on soft and complex materials. As well as its great success in biophysics and biology, single-molecule microscopy has the potential to revolutionize our view of soft matter, organized materials, and out-of-equilibrium condensed systems, by displaying their full heterogeneity in time and space to a molecular level.

In recent years, many classes of complex or organized materials have benefited from the advantages of single-molecule optics, including polymers, interfaces and zeolites. In all these systems, experiments have shown that static and dynamic heterogeneities and the spread of molecular parameters are surprisingly large. This knowledge is the missing link between the chemist’s view of the structure and interactions of the molecules and the soft matter physicist‘s view of their mesoscopic organization.

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“Nano-bio” PCCP themed issue

06 Aug 2010

Announcing a PCCP themed issue on Nano-bio: The interface between bio-systems and nano-devices

Submission Deadline: 06 December 2010

Submit an article here

The aim of this issue is to cover the wide range of exciting research which encompasses the boundaries between biology, biophysics and biophysical chemistry on the nanoscale, topics include:

bioconjugated nanoparticles for diagnostic imaging and therapy

nanopatterning for biosensing and bioMEMS

regenerative medicine and tissue engineering

biofunctional and biomimetic materials

drug delivery techniques using nanomaterials

The issue is part of the PCCP biophysics and biophysical chemistry series which will serve to foster links between these research communities and highlight the great work we publish in this area. The series is Guest Edited by Seong Keun Kim (Seoul National University, Korea), Jean-Pierre Schermann (Université Paris 13, France), and Taekjip Ha (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA).

All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of PCCP. Work should be accessible to a general physical and biophysical audience and papers should be written with this in mind.

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PCCP Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry Series

05 Aug 2010

PCCP is delighted to announce that this year it is publishing a series of themed issues in the fields of biophysics and biophysical chemistry to highlight some of the great content we publish in this area.

The series contains issues on a variety of topics in this exciting multidisciplinary research area.

Take a look today at the issues that are already published:

Biomolecular Structures: From Isolated Molecules to Living Cells

Molecular Mechanisms of the Photostability of life

And sign-up to our contents e-alerts to have the upcoming issues sent direct to your inbox:

Water in biological systems

Advances in Mass Spectrometry for Biological Science

Homochirality and Origin of Life

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

This high-profile series is Guest Edited by PCCP Advisory Board member Seong Keun Kim (Seoul National University, Korea), Jean-Pierre Schermann (Université Paris 13, France), and Taekjip Ha (University of Illinois, USA). The series also contains an issue on molecular mechanisms of the photostability of life Guest Edited by Andrzej Sobolewski and Wolfgang Domcke.

We believe that this series of themed issues will serve to foster links between the biophysics and biophysical chemistry research communities and will have a valuable and lasting impact in this research field.

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