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.
Borders in science and nations are artificial. Should we have borders within India?
15 Feb 2017
An article by E. Arunan, PCCP Advisory Board member 2005-2016
Introducing Associate Editor Professor Piero Baglioni
14 Feb 2017
We are delighted to welcome Professor Piero Baglioni as our newest Associate Editor for PCCP.
Professor Piero Baglioni is a professor of Physical Chemisty at the University of Florence and director of the Italian Center for Colloid and Nanoscence (CSGI). His scientific interests focus on the Physical Chemistry of soft matter systems, both from a fundamental and an applicative point of view. In particular his research interests concern amphiphilic and lipid self-assembly, water confinement in inorganic and organic matrices, and the design of inorganic and hybrid nanostructured materials for applications in different areas, as materials for cultural heritage conservation, coatings, building materials.
Read Professor Baglioni’s most recent PCCP article:
Poly(ethylene glycol)-graft-poly(vinyl acetate) single-chain nanoparticles for the encapsulation of small molecules
Arianna Bartolini, Paolo Tempesti, Claudio Resta, Debora Berti, Johan Smets, Yousef G. Aouad and Piero Baglioni
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 4553-4559
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP07967A, Paper
Welcome Professor Piero Baglioni and his Editorial Office can be selected on submission to PCCP here.
The inaugural PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship is awarded to Dr David Glowacki
14 Dec 2016
Launching this year, the Lectureship was created to recognise and support an emerging scientist working in physical chemistry, chemical physics or biophysical chemistry who is making an outstanding contribution to their field and is at an early stage of their career.
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Nominations were open to all and were made by leading researchers from around the world. The nominee list was shortlisted by the Editorial Board prior to the Fall PCCP Editorial Board meeting, at which, Dr David Glowacki, University of Bristol, was selected as the inaugural recipient.
As part of the Lectureship Dr Glowacki will be awarded a travel bursary of £1000 to attend and present at a leading international event in 2017, where he will be presented his Lectureship award. Dr Glowacki has also been invited to contribute a Perspective article to PCCP.
Many congratulations to Dr Glowacki on behalf of the PCCP Ownership Societies and Editorial Board.
Nominations for the 2017 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship will open next summer, keep up to date with latest journal news on the blog, Twitter, newsletter and e-TOC alerts.
Now online – Insights from advanced methods in molecular dynamics Themed Issue
17 Nov 2016
PCCP are pleased to anounce that the Insights from advanced methods in molecular dynamics themed issue is now online. This issue aims to highlight the new insights and applications that have been enabled by the use of advanced molecular dynamics techniques and potentials. The issue is guest-edited by G. Andres Cisneros (Wayne State University), Haiyan Liu (University of Science & Technology of China), Jean-Philip Piquemal (Sorbonne Université) and Pengyu Ren (University of Texas at Austin).
Read the full collection online. It includes:
Elucidation of the conformational dynamics of multi-body systems by construction of Markov state models
Lizhe Zhu, Fu Kit Sheong, Xiangze Zeng and Xuhui Huang
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 30228-30235
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP02545E
Lizhe Zhu, Fu Kit Sheong, Xiangze Zeng and Xuhui Huang
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 30228-30235
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP02545E
On the calculation of equilibrium thermodynamic properties from molecular dynamics
Peter V. Coveney and Shunzhou Wana
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 30236-30240
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP02349E
Simulations of the water exchange dynamics of lanthanide ions in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethyl sulfate ([EMIm][EtSO4]) and water
Yi-Jung Tu, Matthew J. Allen and G. Andrés Cisneros
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 30323-30333
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP04957E
Calculating binding free energies of host–guest systems using the AMOEBA polarizable force field
David R. Bell, Rui Qi, Zhifeng Jing, Jin Yu Xiang, Christopher Mejias, Michael J. Schnieders, Jay W. Ponder and Pengyu Ren
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 30261-30269
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP02509A
XLIV Congress of the Division of Physical Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society
21 Oct 2016
PCCP was pleased to support the XLIV Congress of the Division of Physical Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society which took place in Naples from the 20th – 23rd September 2016.
The following were winners of the PCCP sponsored Poster Prizes.
| Winner name | Institution | Poster title | |
| Massimo Bernareggi | University of Milan | Temperature effects on the photocatalytic hydrogen production with Cu-Pt containing TiO2 materials | |
| Ilaria Fortunati | University of Padua | Determination of FRET efficiency through fluorescence lifetime analysis using Cameleon sensors in HeLa cells | |
| Livia Giotta | University of Salento | A mediatorless photoelectrochemical cell based on LIFT-immobilized Reaction Centers for the amperometric detection of herbicides | |
| Rosario Oliva | University of Naples Federico II | The effect of DMSO on the thermotropic properties of cholesterol-containing DPPC liposomes |
For more information please visit the conference website.
19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Theoretical Chemists
07 Oct 2016
PCCP were pleased to support the 19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Theoretical Chemists took place on 23rd – 25th May 2016 at Waseda University, Japan.
Official award name
Best Presentation Award Supported by PCCP
Award Winner
Kento Kasahara
Poster title
A theory of diffusion controlled reactions in polyatomic molecule system
PCCP themed issue “Developments in Density Functional Theory”
23 Sep 2016
Click through to read the Themed Collection online Developments in Density Functional Theory, guest edited by Robert van Leeuwen, Johannes Neugebauer, Lucas Visscher and F. Matthias Bickelhaupt. Read the Editorial for an overview of the collection.
Editorial for PCCP themed issue “Developments in Density Functional Theory”
Robert van Leeuwen, Johannes Neugebauer, Lucas Visscher and F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 20864-20867
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP90143C, Editorial
How molecular is the chemisorptive bond?
R. A. van Santen and I. Tranca
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 20868-20894
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP01394E, Perspective
Time-dependent Dyson orbital theory
O. V. Gritsenko and E. J. Baerends
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 20945-20954
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP00888G, Paper
Extension of the interacting quantum atoms (IQA) approach to B3LYP level density functional theory (DFT)
Peter Maxwell, Ángel Martín Pendás and Paul L. A. Popelier
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 20986-21000
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP07021J, Paper
Top 10 Reviewers for PCCP
22 Sep 2016
In celebration of Peer Review Week, with the theme of Recognition for Review – we would like to highlight the top 10 reviewers for PCCP in 2016. They have been selected by the editor for their significant contribution to the journal.
Top 10 reviewers for PCCP
Dr Jose Plata, Duke University
Dr Martijn Zwijnenburg, University College London
Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science
Dr Wenwei Zheng , National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Professor Martin Korth, Ulm University
Dr Antonio Cammarata, Czech Technical University in Prague
Dr Leonardo Bernasconi, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Professor Jianing Li, University of Vermont
Professor Martin Suhm, Georg August Universitaet Goettingen
Professor Dennis Salahub, University of Calgary
We would like to say a massive thank you to these reviewers as well as the PCCP board and all of the community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.
Introducing Associate Editor Professor Kiyotaka Asakura
19 Sep 2016
We are delighted to welcome Professor Kiyotaka Asakura as our newest Associate Editor for PCCP.
Professor Kiyotaka Asakura completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1981, and went on to complete his PhD at the same university in 1987. He subsequently moved to Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, Fritz-Haber-Instite, Berlin, then Assistant Professor, Lecturer and on to Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is now Professor at the Institute for Catalysis (ICAT), Hokkaido University, Japan.
Professor Kiyotaka Asakura has expertise in X-ray spectroscopy, surface science, catalyst characterization, catalysis and microscopy and his Editorial Office can be selected on submission to PCCP.
Welcome Professor Kiyotaka Asakura.
Prebiotic chemistry themed collection now online
18 Aug 2016
We are delighted to announce that the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) themed collection Prebiotic chemistry and the molecular origins of life is now online and free to access until the end of September 2016.
Guest Edited by Professor Irene A. Chen and Professor Mattanjah S. de Vries, this collection of articles showcases cutting edge research and Perspectives on the physical chemistry involved in the origins of life.
Read the full collection online
It includes:
Editorial
From underwear to non-equilibrium thermodynamics: physical chemistry informs the origin of life
Irene A. Chen and Mattanjah S. de Vries
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 20005-20006 DOI: 10.1039/C6CP90169G
Perspective
A ‘bottom up’, ab initio computational approach to understanding fundamental photophysical processes in nitrogen containing heterocycles, DNA bases and base pairs
Barbara Marchetti, Tolga N. V. Karsili, Michael N. R. Ashfold and Wolfgang Domcke
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 20007-20027, DOI: 10.1039/C6CP00165C
Communication
Photochemical etiology of promising ancestors of the RNA nucleobases
M. M. Brister, M. Pollum and C. E. Crespo-Hernández
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 20097-20103, DOI: 10.1039/C6CP00639F
Paper
Possible interstellar formation of glycine through a concerted mechanism: a computational study on the reaction of CH2=NH, CO2 and H2
Zanele P. Nhlabatsi, Priya Bhasi and Sanyasi Sitha
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 20109-20117, DOI: 10.1039/C5CP07124K