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Superresolution imaging and fabrication with light
Guest Editors: Françisco M. Raymo (University of Miami, USA)

Deadline for Submissions: 8 April 2013

Submit using our online submission service

There is still time to contribute to the high-profile themed issue ‘Superresolution imaging and fabrication with light’.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in  2013. It will receive great exposure, and get significant promotion.

It is essential that all submissions to PCCP should contain new physical insight and contributions to this themed collection will be assessed on this basis.

• Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service
• Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research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 is intended for the themed issue

Please contact the PCCP Editorial Office to let us know you plan to contribute an article.

Superresolution imaging and fabrication with light
Guest Editors: Françisco M. Raymo (University of Miami, USA)

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue ‘Superresolution imaging and fabrication with light’. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in  2013 and will be promoted to the community throughout the year to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submissions: 8 April 2013

Diffraction prevents the focusing of light within volumes of subwavelength dimensions. As a result, this unavoidable physical phenomenon limits the resolution of imaging and lithographic techniques based on far-field optics. In order to overcome these stringent limitations, significant research efforts have been directed, over the past decade, to the identification of protocols to overcome diffraction.

Some of these methods rely on the photochemical and photophysical properties of engineered chromophores to circumvent diffraction. These clever operating principles have already succeeded in bringing the resolution of fluorescence imaging and photolithography down to the nanoscale. Indeed, they are starting to impact biomedical research and, presumably, will soon have similar implications in information technology.

Thus it is timely to publish a themed collection in PCCP on this emerging and extremely promising area of research. The themed collection will provide a general overview of the fundamental principles of these strategies as well as covering optical imaging and fabrication at the nanoscale.

It is essential that all submissions to PCCP should contain new physical insight and contributions to this themed collection will be assessed on this basis.

• Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service
• 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 is intended for the themed issue

Please contact the PCCP Editorial Office to let us know you plan to contribute an article.

PCCP themed issue: call for papers

Physical-chemistry at the cross-road of advanced oxide materials
Guest Editors: Flora Boccuzzi (University of Torino), Leonardo Marchese (University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”) and Gianmario Martra (University of Torino)

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue on advanced oxide materials. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in  2013 and will be promoted to the community throughout the year to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submissions: 18 March 2013

Oxide-based materials have been largely studied for their catalytic, electronic or adsorbent properties. Since the early 1960’s, when studies of high surface area oxides and metal dispersed on oxides of interest for catalysis and sensing were mostly developed, their interest has been extended along the years to other technological applications such as energy production, biotechnology and nanomedicine. In general, the broad range of emerging applications has pushed the preparation of new functional oxide-based materials, with expected tailored smart properties.

This themed issue is intended to highlight the central role of experimental and theoretical physical-chemical investigations of bulk and surface structural and functional properties of these materials to target actual, knowledge-based breakthroughs.

Topics covered by this themed issue include experimental and/or theoretical studies of:

• structure of surface sites of heterogeneous catalysts by in-situ/in-operando methods;
• mechanisms of reactions of interest for sustainable chemical processes and catalyzed by oxide-based materials;
• molecular or photophysical events occurring at the surface/interface of nanomaterials for energy production;
• understanding physico-chemical phenomena of oxide-based materials for energy production, storage and emission;
• physico-chemical characterization of functional-oriented materials for sensing;
• physico-chemical studies of the interaction of oxide-based materials with biomolecules;
• unconventional spectroscopic studies.

Contributions on oxide-based materials outside the above list of topics will be also accepted provided that they are within the scope of PCCP and contain sufficient new physical insight.

• Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service
• 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 is intended for the themed issue

Please contact the PCCP Editorial Office to let us know you plan to contribute an article.

We are delighted to announce that the PCCP themed issue – Predicting New Molecules by Quantum Chemical Methods has now been published online – take a look today!

The themed issue was Guest Edited by Gabriel Merino (Unidad Merida) and Thomas Heine (Jacobs University).

The Predicting New Molecules by Quantum Chemical Methods themed issue features a broad range of perspective and papers and includes the following Hot articles:

• Multi-decker tricarbonyl-bridged sandwich complexes of transition metals: structure, stability and electron-counting rules
  Tatyana N. Gribanova, Ruslan M. Minyaev and Vladimir I. Minkin
• DFT studies on the structure and properties of the carbon aluminium Al₃C cluster, a pseudohalogen superatom
  Qiong Luo
• Is C₆₀ buckminsterfullerene aromatic?
  Zhongfang Chen, Judy I. Wu, Clémence Corminboeuf, Jonathan Bohmann, Xin Lu, Andreas Hirsch and Paul von Ragué Schleyer

Take a look at the issue today!

PCCP themed issue: call for papers

Scanning tunneling microscopy: revealing new physical chemistry insight
Guest Editors: Professors Li-Jun Wan and Dong Wang (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue on scanning tunneling microscopy. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in summer 2013 and will be promoted to the community throughout the year to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submissions: 22 February 2013

 It has been 30 years since the invention of Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM); allowing scientist to directly image the nano-world at atomic resolution and fuelling the development of a large family of probe-based microscopy. More importantly, STM has opened new avenues to explore the fascinating properties associated with the nano-sized objects, and has stimulated the growth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. As a powerful surface characterization technique, STM is particularly important for surface and interface physical chemistry research.

 This themed issue will highlight the role of STM techniques at the interface of chemistry, physics, biology, and material sciences, focusing especially on surface physical chemistry. Topics covered by the issue include:

• Single molecular science by STM
• Supramolecular assembly on surfaces
• Experimental and theoretical description of surface science by STM
• Heterogenous catalysis mechanisms by STM
• Energy and electron transfer at surfaces and interfaces 

The deadline for submissions to the themed issue is 22 February 2013, although submissions before this date are of course welcomed. Please do let us know if you are able to accept this invitation by contacting the PCCP Editorial Office.

With our best wishes,

Li-Jun Wan and Dong Wang
Guest Editors 

Jane Hordern
Deputy Editor, PCCP