Register now for ISPPCC 2017

The 22nd International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC) will take place at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, on 9th – 14th July 2017. This long-standing series brings together the latest advances in “light interaction with metal-containing systems“, including:

  • Ultrafast Dynamics of Photo induced Processes
  • X-rays and e-beams in Photosciences
  • Frontiers in Spectroscopy and Theory of Excited States
  • Multidimensional Spectroscopic and Structural Methods
  • Photoactive Molecules, Nanostructures and Devices
  • Photocatalysis, Solar Fuels, and Materials for Energy
  • Biological Optical Imaging and Sensing
  • Photobiology, Diagnostics and Therapy

Poster prizes will be awarded from Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP), Energy & Environmental Science, and Sustainable Energy & Fuels.


 

Important dates:

  • Poster abstract submission deadline: 15th May 2017
  • Registration deadline: 15th June 2017
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116th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry

The German Bunsen Society of Physical Chemistry (DBG) will be hosting the 116th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry from 25th to 27th May 2017 at the TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. PCCP Executive Editor Dr Anna Simpson will be attending and looks forward to meeting you there. The assembly will also include an industrial symposium with accompanying exhibition and career forum.

  • Main Topic: Physical Chemistry for Life Sciences
  • Opening Lecture: Development of Proteomics Technologies and their Application to Life Sciences
  • Industrial Symposium: Physical Chemistry for Life Sciences in Industry and Industrial Exhibition 

The tremendous progress in Life Sciences that brought this discipline into the public spotlight in the last decades has been spurred by the development and refinement of methods from both experimental and theoretical physical chemistry. The contribution of physical chemistry to Life Sciences as a key technology of the 21st century has enabled the analysis of biologically relevant processes on a molecular level. This has been vital for medical science to design drugs and therapeutic approaches.

Physical chemistry concepts and methods branch out into the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, and molecular medicine. This meeting shall bring together outstanding scientists to discuss cutting-edge results and push the frontiers of these fields further. The strong interdisciplinary focus of the 2017 Bunsentagung should foster discussions and spawn new collaborations across the boundaries of scientific disciplines.

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Winner of the PCCP poster prize at the University of California Chemical Symposium

The 2017 UCCS meeting was held at the Lake Arrowhead conference center on March 27th – 29th 2017.

The University of California Chemical Symposium was a symposium for current graduate students and postodctoral researchers in all fields of chemistry at all of the University of California campuses.

Keynote speakers of the 2017 meeting included Professor Vy Dong and Professor Catherine J. Murphy.

The PCCP Poster Prize was awarded to Chad Cruz from the University of California, Riverside, for his poster entitled “Utilizing Intermolecular States for Photon Upconversion in Molecular Crystals of Rubrene” and presented by Dr Jennifer Griffiths, the RSC Editorial Development Manager, Americas.

 

 

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Faraday Joint Interest Group Conference 2017

11 – 13 April 2017

University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

This meeting is the first of its kind, and aims to bring the UK Physical Chemistry community together once every 2-3 years to highlight excellent research. The aim of the conference is to increase the visibility of the UK physical chemistry community and encourage links with international researchers as well as those in industry.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Sir Fraser Stoddart (2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Northwestern University)
Professor Chris Dobson (University of Cambridge)
Professor Ifor Samuel (University of St Andrews)
Professor Peter Bruce (University of Oxford)
Dr. Józef Lewandowski (University of Warwick)

Dr. David Glowacki, will be giving his PCCP Emerging Lectureship Award talk at the conference on Wednesday 12th April, presented by PCCP Deputy Editor, Katie Lim.

Visit the website to register or for more details. Registration closes: 28 March 2017

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International Symposium on Molecular Beams 2017

The ISMB2017 is the 27th edition of the International Symposium on Molecular Beams which will take place from 25 – 30 June 2017 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Chaired this year by Bas van de Meerakker (Radboud University), and Anouk Rijs (Radboud University, PCCP Associate Editor) the conference promises a stimulating and interesting scientific program with oral and poster presentations, lively discussions with other scientists in the field and social events.

Invited speakers at the event include: Mattanjah de Vries (University of California Santa Barbara, USA, PCCP Advisory Board)Luis Bañares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, PCCP Associate Editor), and Dan Neumark (University of California Berkeley, USA, PCCP Advisory Board).

Register now: early bird registration closes 1st April. For more information visit the conference website.

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2017 PCCP – Chemical Society of Japan Prizes

PCCP are delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 PCCP Prizes for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics. These were awarded  at a prize ceremony held at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan on the 16th March in Tokyo, Japan.  The winners each received a commemorative book and a PCCP Prize certificate.

 

From left: Prof. Yasuhiro Iwasawa (University of Electro-Communications, former CSJ president, founder of PCCP-CSJ award); Prof. Ryou Kubota (prize winner); Prof. Kenta Mizuse (prize winner); Prof. Miho Hatanaka (prize winner); Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto (Chubu University, Current CSJ President); Sarah Thomas (RSC Program Manager); Robert Parker (RSC Chief Executive Officer); Hiromitsu Urakami (RSC Manager, Japan); Prof. Mitsuo Sawamoto (Kyoto University)

(1) Dr. Ryou Kubota
Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University  
Artificial Regulation and Imitation of Living Systems based on Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry

 

(2) Dr. Kenta Mizuse
Assistant Professor
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry, School of Science
“Direct imaging study of gas-phase ultrafast molecular dynamics using a newly developed space-slice ion imaging technique”

 

(3) Dr. Miho Hatanaka
Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University
Theoretical Study of the Lanthanide Chemistry: structural fluctuation, catalytic ability, and luminescence

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Outstanding Reviewers for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics in 2016

Following the success of Peer Review Week in September 2016 (dedicated to reviewer recognition) during which we published a list of our top reviewers, we are delighted to announce that we will continue to recognise the contribution that our reviewers make to the journal by announcing our Outstanding Reviewers each year.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics in 2016, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science

Dr Leonardo Bernasconi, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Dr Antonio Cammarata, Czech Technical University in Prague

Professor Ayan Datta, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Professor Sergei Manzhos, National University of Singapore

Dr Aurelien Perera, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Dr Jose Plata, Duke University

Professor Yasuteru Shigeta, University of Tsukuba

Professor Leonidas Tsetseris, National Technical University of Athens

Dr Lijun Xu, Honeywell UOP

We would also like to thank the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics board and the Physical Chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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34th International Symposium on Free Radicals

The biannual International Symposium will take place in Hayama, Japan on 27th August 2017 – 1st September 2017.  The Free Radicals series aims to provide a strongly interdisciplinary forum for chemists, physicists, astrophysicists and environmental scientists for exchanging the latest research results on diverse aspects, experiment and theory, of free radicals.

Topics which will be covered at the 34th International Symposium on Free Radicals include:

  • Spectroscopy of free radicals
  • Structure of free radicals
  • Chemical kinetics and dynamics of radicals, theory and experiment
  • Ultrafast spectroscopy of chemical dynamics
  • Free radicals as reaction intermediates
  • Free radicals and atmospheric chemistry
  • Free radicals and combustion chemistry
  • Free radicals and interstellar chemistry
  • Cold atoms and molecules

For more information, please check out the website.

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New PCCP Advisory board members

PCCP are happy to anounce some new advisory board members starting in 2017.

  • Denis Jacquemin, Université de Nantes, France
  • Toshinori Suzuki, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Paul Ayers, McMaster University, Canada

Check out our PCCP page for more details on our Editorial and Advisory board members.

 

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Borders in science and nations are artificial. Should we have borders within India?

An article by E. Arunan, PCCP Advisory Board member 2005-2016

Read Professor E. Arunan’s thought-provoking arguments for a world without borders:

Borders in science and nations are artificial. Should we have borders within India? 
E. Arunan
Current Science, 2017, 112 (3), 435-436.

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