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Professor Martin Pumera has become PCCP‘s newest Associate Editor.

Martin Pumera is an Assoc. Prof. at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his PhD at Charles University, Czech Republic, in 2001. After two postdoctoral stays (in the USA, Spain), he joined the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, in 2006 for a tenure-track arrangement and stayed there until Spring 2008 when he accepted a tenured position at NIMS.

In 2009, Prof. Pumera received a ERC-StG award and in 2010 joined NTU. Prof. Pumera has broad interests in nanomaterials, microsystems and electrochemistry, in the specific areas of 1D and 2D materials, micro/nanomotors, lab on a chip, sensing and energy storage devices. He published over 300 peer-reviewed articles.

On behalf of Professor Pumera and the rest of our Editorial Board, we would like to invite you to submit your best work to PCCP.

PCCP is delighted to announce that the Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft (OePG) has recently become the nineteenth society to co-own PCCP. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is proud to be a Society journal and is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of the whole scientific community.

Wolfgang E. Ernst, President of the OePG, says ‘The Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft is very happy to be on board with PCCP as a new co-owner. Many groups in the physics institutes of Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, and Vienna participate in research projects, the results of which perfectly fit the mission of PCCP. I am confident that 2015 will be an excellent year for the partnership between PCCP and the Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft.’

Javier Aoiz, Chair of PCCP‘s Ownership Board and representative of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, says ‘On behalf of the full Ownership Board, it is a pleasure to welcome the Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft as a new co-owner of PCCP.  The Austrian Physical Society has become the twentieth Society from 19 different European and non-European countries participating in, what was since its very inception, an exciting project.

PCCP was launched in 1999, and since then the number of papers published each year has grown by three and a half times; in 2014, the journal published almost 4,000 papers. It is now a well-established journal and a sure reference in the interdisciplinary field of Physical Chemistry-Chemical Physics covering a broad scope of cutting-edge scientific subjects.

We are sure the journal will benefit from the participation of the OePG and that the contribution from Austrian scientists will soar in the near future.’

To celebrate this new partnership, PCCP has created a collection of top cited articles from authors based in Austria to showcase some of the great Austrian research published recently in the journal. These articles are free to read until 28^th February 2015.

PERSPECTIVES:
Understanding photosynthetic light-harvesting: a bottom up theoretical approach
Thomas Renger and Frank Müh
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp43439g, Perspective

ORIGINAL RESEARCH:
Matter–wave interference of particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
Sandra Eibenberger, Stefan Gerlich, Markus Arndt, Marcel Mayor and Jens Tüxen
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51500A, Paper

A step towards the a priori design of ionic liquids
Heiko Niedermeyer, Claire Ashworth, Agnieszka Brandt, Tom Welton and Patricia A. Hunt
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50521A, Paper

Internal state thermometry of cold trapped molecular anions
Rico Otto, Alexander von Zastrow, Thorsten Best and Roland Wester
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP43186F, Paper

Polarisabilities of alkylimidazolium ionic liquids
Katharina Bica, Maggel Deetlefs, Christian Schröder and Kenneth R. Seddon
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP43867H, Paper

N-site de-methylation in pyrimidine bases as studied by low energy electrons and ab initiocalculations
D. Almeida, D. Kinzel, F. Ferreira da Silva, B. Puschnigg, D. Gschliesser, P. Scheier, S. Denifl, G. García, L. González and P. Limão-Vieira
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50548K, Paper

The relevance of interfaces for oxide ion transport in yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thin films
Matthias Gerstl, Gernot Friedbacher, Frank Kubel, Herbert Hutter and Jürgen Fleig
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP42347B, Paper

Long-range Li⁺ dynamics in the lithium argyrodite Li₇PSe₆ as probed by rotating-frame spin–lattice relaxation NMR
V. Epp, Ö. Gün, H.-J. Deiseroth and M. Wilkening
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44379E, Paper

Electron attachment to the dipeptide dialanine: influence of methylation on site selective dissociation reactions
Benjamin Puschnigg, Stefan E. Huber, Michael Probst, Katrin Tanzer, Violaine Vizcaino, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Paul Scheier, Paulo Limão-Vieira and Stephan Denifl
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44230F, Paper

Irreversible thermochromism in copper chloride Imidazolium Nanoparticle Networks
Martin Kronstein, Konstantin Kriechbaum, Johanna Akbarzadeh, Herwig Peterlik and Marie-Alexandra Neouze
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50430A, Paper

We are delighted to welcome three new Associate Editors to PCCP, Bo Albinsson, Luis Bañares and Henry F. Schaefer III. All three Associate Editors will start handling submissions very soon, so we encourage you to submit your best work to these Editorial Offices now.

Bo Albinsson
Bo Albinsson is professor in Physical Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. He is currently vice head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering with responsibility for the graduate training (presently over 200 PhD students in four graduate schools) and will become the Director of the Chalmers Area of Advance for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology beginning in 2015. Albinsson has a long-standing interest in mechanisms for energy and electron transfer reactions with relevance for solar energy research and he has lately been involved in developing DNA nanostructures with photo redox active functionalizations. 13 students have completed their PhD under the supervision of Bo Albinsson and he has published over 120 refereed scientific publications in mostly high impact journals.

Luis Bañares
Professor Bañares is Chair of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Centre for Ultrafast Lasers at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain. He received his PhD in Chemistry from UCM in 1990. Following postdoctoral research associate positions at California Institute of Technology (USA) and Universität Würzburg (Germany) with Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships, respectively, he joined UCM as an assistant professor, associate professor and since 2007 as full professor. His research interests are related to experimental and theoretical chemical reaction dynamics and femtochemistry. His work focuses on the understanding of fundamental chemical reactions and photodissociation processes at a molecular level.

Henry F. Schaefer
Dr. Schaefer is currently Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia, USA. He received his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from Stanford University. For 18 years he served as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research involves the use of state-of-the-art computational hardware and theoretical methods to solve important problems in molecular quantum mechanics.

All three Editors will start to handle manuscripts soon, so we encourage you to submit now to these three new Editorial offices.

Take a look at some of the recent contributions the new Associate Editors have made to PCCP:

Triplet–triplet annihilation photon-upconversion: towards solar energy applications
Victor Gray, Damir Dzebo, Maria Abrahamsson, Bo Albinsson and Kasper Moth-Poulsen
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00744A, Perspective

Imaging the stereodynamics of methyl iodide photodissociation in the second absorption band: fragment polarization and the interplay between direct and predissociation
Marta G. González, Javier D. Rodríguez, Luis Rubio-Lago and Luis Bañares
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4CP03823A, Paper

Proton-transfer in hydrogenated guanine–cytosine trimer neutral species, cations, and anions embedded in B-form DNA
Yuexia Lin, Hongyan Wang, Yingxi Wu, Simin Gao and Henry F. Schaefer III
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54904F, Paper

New PCCP Associate Editors: Bo Albinsson (left), Luis Bañares (centre) and Henry F. Schaefer (right).