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Poster Prizes at Bunsentagung 2014

19 Jun 2014

PCCP was delighted to award poster prizes at the Bunsentagung 2014, which took place on 29–31 May at the University of Hamburg.

A total of eight poster prizes were awarded to the following recipients:

Alexander Riss (University of California Berkeley)
Marina Schenk (Bielefeld University)
Mona Calik (University of Munich)
Maria Wuithschick (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Christian Heine (Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG)
Denis Czurlok (University of Bonn)
Sascha Schäfer (University of Göttingen)
Johannes Lang (University of Kaiserslautern)

A further 10 winners were also awarded with the PCCP ‘Hot Topics’ Prize: Janika Lauth (University of Hamburg), Wei Liu (Dresden University of Technology), Michael Senske (Ruhr University Bochum), Benjamin Sperlich (Dortmund University), Uta Stange (University of Kiel), Helen Preiß (University of Göttingen), Jan Goritzka (University of Bremen), Simon Merz (Radboud University Nijmegen), Manuel Tsotsalas (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Roland Frach (TU Dortmund).

Congratulations to the recipients of all the prizes!

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Recent HOT PCCP articles

16 Jun 2014

By Judy Allen, Publishing Assistant.

Check out the following HOT PCCP articles, these are free to access for a limited time!

Ultrafast charge separation and nongeminate electron–hole recombination in organic photovoltaics
Samuel L. Smith and Alex W. Chin
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01791A

Chemical nature of boron and nitrogen dopant atoms in graphene strongly influences its electronic properties
Petr Lazar, Radek Zbořil, Martin Pumera and Michal Otyepka
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01638F

How disorder controls the kinetics of triplet charge recombination in semiconducting organic polymer photovoltaics
Eric R. Bittner, Vladimir Lankevich, Simon Gélinas, Akshay Rao, David A. Ginger and Richard H. Friend
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01776E How disorder controls the kinetics of triplet charge recombination in semiconducting organic polymer photovoltaics

A comparative study of Ru(II) cyclometallated complexes versus thiocyanated heteroleptic complexes: thermodynamic force for efficient dye regeneration in dye-sensitized solar cells and how low could it be?
Maqbool Hussain, Ashraful Islam, Idriss Bedja, Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Liyuan Han and Ahmed El-Shafei
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00907J

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Recent HOT PCCP articles

09 Jun 2014

By Judy Allen, Publishing Assistant.

Check out the following HOT articles! These are all free to access for a limited time:

Exploiting level anti-crossings (LACs) in the rotating frame for transferring spin hyperpolarization
Andrey N. Pravdivtsev, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya, Nikita N. Lukzen, Hans-Martin Vieth and Konstantin L. Ivanov
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01445F

Photoconversion of 6,13-α-diketopentacene in the crystalline phase
Sadahiro Masuo, Katsuki Tanaka, Mariko Oe and Hiroko Yamada
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01607F

Accessing the third dimension in localization-based super-resolution microscopy
Bassam Hajj, Mohamed El Beheiry, Ignacio Izeddin, Xavier Darzacq and Maxime Dahan
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01380H

Nanoparticle impacts reveal magnetic field induced agglomeration and reduced dissolution rates
Kristina Tschulik and Richard G. Compton
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01618A

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Measuring single-molecules in the living cell mini-collection online now!

06 Jun 2014

By Jessica Cocker, Development Editor.

A mini-collection of articles covering the newest developments in in vivo single-molecule methods has recently been published online as part of issue 25 of PCCP. The mini-collection highlights the great progress that has been made in tracking individual fluorescent proteins in living cells or bacteria and to this end the novel microscopy and labelling strategies that have been developed. Also covered are techniques like optical tweezers that are being applied more and more to living cells, using particles that are smaller and can be trapped with specificity.

Journal cover: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The following articles are featured in the collection:

A review by Lene Oddershede and co-workers detailing the recent and exciting results achieved through the optical force manipulation of individual molecules in vivo. The review describes the capabilities of optical tweezers, the only nano tool able to manipulate individual molecules and organelles within living cells without disturbing the cell wall. Read more about this extremely useful technique online.

A perspective article by Erwin Peterman et al. reviews methods for investigating membrane–protein diffusion in bacteria, a challenging task due to the extremely small size of bactiera. This article has also been featured on the rather striking front cover of the issue!

Mark Leake has contributed a perspective article detailing the development and application of a variety analytical methods used to localize and track single fluorescently-labelled molecules. He carefully evaluates known methods using case studies and identifies the challenges still facing the field in developing further robust analytical protocols to single-cell single molecule data.

Anne Plochowietz and co-workers offer a new approach to study intramolecular charges or complex formation using FRET at the single-cell level in live bacteria. Read more online about how their method shows improved cell viability and loading over previous studies.

So read more about this fascinating area of research in issue 25 of PCCP online now!

Graphical abstract: Characterization of organic fluorophores for in vivo FRET studies based on electroporated molecules

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Applications open for the 2015 Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award

04 Jun 2014

By Jessica Cocker, Development Editor.

The Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award is a prestigious annual award that enables a promising student/non-tenured young scientist of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning.

The fund for this bursary was established in 1985 as a memorial to Professor Gordon Kirkbright in recognition of his contributions to analytical spectroscopy and to science in general. Although the fund is administered by the Association of British Spectroscopists (ABS) Trust, the award is not restricted to spectroscopists.

Applications are invited for the 2015 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary.

For further information contact John Chalmers by email: vibspecconsult@aol.com

The closing date for entries is 31 December 2014.

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Porous materials with FEZA 2014 – extended deadline

03 Jun 2014

By Jessica Cocker, Development Editor.

The deadline for submission to a cross journal web collection on porous materials in conjunction with the FEZA 2014 conference has been extended to 9^th June 2014.

The conference will cover all aspects of science and technology associated with ordered porous materials – zeolites, zeotypes, mesostructured materials and porous coordination polymers. Submissions are welcome to the relevant journals across the themes of the conference and the collection will also receive promotion at the meeting in September.

For more information on the collection and participating journals, please see the original post.

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Out of the frying pan and into the atmosphere: PCCP article in Chemistry World

02 Jun 2014

By Judy Allen, Publishing Assistant.

Researchers at the University of Reading have come closer to understanding why fatty acids, emitted in significant quantities by fast food outlets cooking meat, persist for so long in the atmosphere.

Out of the fying pan and into the atmosphere

Christian Pfrang and colleagues, studied the ozone oxidation kinetics of methyl oleate monolayers at the air–water interface using experiments designed to mimic the atmospheric degradation of aerosols formed from fatty acid surfactants and moisture droplets. The experiments were carried out by skimming a fine beam of neutrons off a free air–water interface while the oxidation reaction took place. They found that the methyl ester monolayers broke down much faster than expected based on reported lifetimes in the atmosphere, suggesting that the long-chain organics are taken up into the droplet itself, where they are protected from further ozonolysis.

The presence of particulate matter in the atmosphere is a major health concern and may ultimately have significant climate change implications. Reports suggest that around a third of directly emitted aerosols above central London come from cooking, the majority of which are rich in oleic acid derivatives produced by cooking meat. These types of emissions are on the rise as vehicles move towards biofuels, another source of fatty acid methyl esters.

Interested to know more?

Read the full article by Richard Massey in Chemistry World here…

Read the article in PCCP:

Ozonolysis of methyl oleate monolayers at the air–water interface: oxidation kinetics, reaction products and atmospheric implications
Christian Pfrang, Federica Sebastiani, Claire O. M. Lucas, Martin D. King, Ioan D. Hoare, Debby Chang and Richard A. Campbell
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00775A

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PCCP at Bunsentagung 2014

28 May 2014

By Jessica Cocker, Development Editor.

Bunsentagung 2014 is taking place later this week in Hamburg, Germany (29–31 May). PCCP Deputy Editor Jeanne Andres will be there so if you are also attending please do visit our stand – we’d love to meet you and hear any feedback that you may have about our journal.

PCCP activities with Bunsentagung:

15^th anniversary issue: A special issue to mark 15 years since the very first issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics was published recently. The issue contains work from many of the people who have contributed to the success of the journal over the last 15 years and Jeanne will have free copies to give away – so make sure to get yours!

PCCP prizes: For the 8^th year running PCCP is proud to sponsor Poster Prizes and “hot topic” awards at the Bunsentagung rewarding outstanding research.

Co-Owner of PCCP: PCCP is co-owned by 18 national chemical societies including the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft (DBG) für Physikalische Chemie. Every time a paper by a German author is published in PCCP, the DBG receives a financial royalty from the journal. We are proud of PCCP’s strong and historic links with German research.

Board Members: Germany is well represented on the board of PCCP – Martina Havenith, Ruhr-University Bochum and Frank Neese, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion are both Associate Editors for the journal handling papers on THz and IR spectroscopy and Theoretical and Computational Chemistry respectively. We are also privileged to have Stefan Grimme, Wolfgang Lubitz, Manfred Martin, Gerard Meijer, Joachim Sauer, Ferdi Schüth, Martin Suhm, Jürgen Troe and Hans-Joachim Werner on our Editorial and Advisory Boards.

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Recent HOT PCCP articles

27 May 2014

By Judy Allen, Publishing Assistant.

Experimental determination of electrostatic properties of Na–X zeolite from high resolution X-ray diffraction $Experimental determination of electrostatic properties of Na–X zeolite from high resolution X-ray diffraction$
F. F. Porcher, M. Souhassou and C. E. P. Lecomte
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP55397C

CH–π hydrogen bonds in biological macromolecules
Motohiro Nishio, Yoji Umezawa, Jacques Fantini, Manfred S. Weiss and Pinak Chakrabarti
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00099D

Alkaline O₂ reduction on oxide-derived Au: high activity and 4e⁻ selectivity without (100) facets
Xiaoquan Min, Yihong Chen and Matthew W. Kanan
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01337A

Density functional tight binding: values of semi-empirical methods in an ab initio era
Qiang Cui and Marcus Elstner
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00908H

Operating mechanisms of electrolytes in magnesium ion batteries: chemical equilibrium, magnesium deposition, and electrolyte oxidation Halogen bonding of electrophilic bromocarbons with pseudohalide anions
Dong Young Kim, Younhee Lim, Basab Roy, Young-Gyoon Ryu and Seok-Soo Lee
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01259C

Diastereomeric preference of a triply axial chiral binaphthyl based molecule: a concentration dependent study by chiroptical spectroscopies
Zahra Dezhahang, Mohammad Reza Poopari, Florencio Eloy Hernández, Carlos Diaz and Yunjie Xu
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01704H

Halogen bonding of electrophilic bromocarbons with pseudohalide anions
Sergiy V. Rosokha, Charlotte L. Stern, Alan Swartz and Rory Stewart
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00976B

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Poster Prizes at Bunsentagung 2014

Recent HOT PCCP articles

Recent HOT PCCP articles

Measuring single-molecules in the living cell mini-collection online now!

Applications open for the 2015 Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award

Porous materials with FEZA 2014 – extended deadline

Out of the frying pan and into the atmosphere: PCCP article in Chemistry World

PCCP at Bunsentagung 2014

Recent HOT PCCP articles

Top 10 most-read PCCP articles – Q1 2014

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