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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is proud to be a Society journal and is co-owned by 18 national chemical societies, including the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC). The journal is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of the whole scientific community.

Did you know that owner Societies receive a royalty every time the journal publishes an article by a researcher based in the Owner Society’s country?

PCCP is committed to publishing the best Canadian research in the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. We have leading Canadian scientists on our international Advisory, Honorary and Ownership Boards: John Polanyi, Roman Krems, Ruth Signorell and Bruce Lennox.

On behalf of all our Board Members we invite you to submit your best work to PCCP.

Why publish in PCCP?

• Large community-spanning international readership
• Very efficient, rigorous and fair peer review procedure
• High impact factor: 3.83
• No author page charges
• No colour charges

So you can see for yourself the quality of work appearing in PCCP, we have collected together some recently published articles from authors based in Canada, with a selection available to read for free for a limited period.

Perspectives:

FREE: Organic n-type materials for charge transport and charge storage applications
Monika Stolar and Thomas Baumgartner
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51379C

FREE: Adsorption of DNA onto gold nanoparticles and graphene oxide: surface science and applications
Juewen Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41186E

FREE: Computational methodologies and physical insights into electronic energy transfer in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes
Leonardo A. Pachón and Paul Brumer
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40815E

FREE: Plasmon enhanced spectroscopy
Ricardo F. Aroca
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44103B

FREE: A critical perspective on molecular electronic junctions: there is plenty of room in the middle
Richard L. McCreery, Haijun Yan and Adam Johan Bergren
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP43516K

Original research:

FREE: Anharmonic vibrations of the carboxyl group in acetic acid on TiO2: implications for adsorption mode assignment in dye-sensitized solar cells
Matthew Chan, Tucker Carrington and Sergei Manzhos
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP00065F

FREE: Sodium-doping as a reference to study the influence of intracluster chemistry on the fragmentation of weakly-bound clusters upon vacuum ultraviolet photoionization
Jessica H. Litman, Bruce L. Yoder, Bernhard Schläppi and Ruth Signorell
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP43098C

FREE: Unraveling the internal dynamics of the benzene dimer: a combined theoretical and microwave spectroscopy study
Melanie Schnell, Undine Erlekam, P. R. Bunker, Gert von Helden, Jens-Uwe Grabow, Gerard Meijer and Ad van der Avoird
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51181B

FREE: pH in atomic scale simulations of electrochemical interfaces
Jan Rossmeisl, Karen Chan, Rizwan Ahmed, Vladimir Tripković and Mårten E. Björketun
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51083B

FREE: Quantitative investigations of quantum coherence for a light-harvesting protein at conditions simulating photosynthesis
Daniel B. Turner, Rayomond Dinshaw, Kyung-Koo Lee, Michael S. Belsley, Krystyna E. Wilk, Paul M. G. Curmi and Gregory D. Scholes
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23670B

FREE: Solvatochromic investigation of highly fluorescent 2-aminobithiophene derivatives
Andréanne Bolduc, Yanmei Dong, Amélie Guérin and W. G. Skene
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40293A

FREE: Vibrational cooling, heating, and instability in molecular conducting junctions: full counting statistics analysis
Lena Simine and Dvira Segal
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40851A

We would like to share with you a selection of recent articles published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journals Energy & Environmental Science (EES), Nanoscale and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in the area of biotechnology.

You can read these articles for free for a limited period by clicking on the links below.

EES, Nanoscale and PCCP are high-impact journals published on a not-for-profit ethos for the benefit of the wider scientific community.

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FREE: Miniaturized biological and electrochemical fuel cells: challenges and applications
Jie Yang, Sasan Ghobadian, Payton J. Goodrich, Reza Montazami and Nastaran Hashemi
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50804H, Perspective

FREE: Plasmonic fluorescence enhancement by metal nanostructures: shaping the future of bionanotechnology
Daniel Darvill, Anthony Centeno and Fang Xie
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50415H, Perspective

FREE: Construction of biomimetic smart nanochannels with polymer membranes and application in energy conversion systems
Liping Wen, Ye Tian, Jie Ma, Jin Zhai and Lei Jiang
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23911F, Perspective

FREE: Encapsulation of actives for sustained release
Markus Andersson Trojer, Lars Nordstierna, Matias Nordin, Magnus Nydén and Krister Holmberg
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52686K, Perspective

FREE: Mussel inspired surface functionalization of electrospun nanofibers for bio-applications
Søren Roesgaard Nielsen, Flemming Besenbacher and Menglin Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52651H, Perspective

FREE: Physics and engineering of peptide supramolecular nanostructures
Amir Handelman, Peter Beker, Nadav Amdursky and Gil Rosenman
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40157F, Perspective

FREE: A pacemaker powered by an implantable biofuel cell operating under conditions mimicking the human blood circulatory system – battery not included
Mark Southcott, Kevin MacVittie, Jan Halámek, Lenka Halámková, William D. Jemison, Robert Lobel and Evgeny Katz
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50929J, Paper

FREE: A novel three-dimensional macrocellular carbonaceous biofuel cell
Victoria Flexer, Nicolas Brun, Mathieu Destribats, Rénal Backov and Nicolas Mano
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50807B, Pape

FREE: In situ fluorescence and electrochemical monitoring of a photosynthetic microbial fuel cell
Alister E. Inglesby, Kamran Yunus and Adrian C. Fisher
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51076J, Paper

FREE: Surface morphology and surface energy of anode materials influence power outputs in a multi-channel mediatorless bio-photovoltaic (BPV) system
Paolo Bombelli, Marie Zarrouati, Rebecca J. Thorne, Kenneth Schneider, Stephen J. L. Rowden, Akin Ali, Kamran Yunus, Petra J. Cameron, Adrian C. Fisher, D. Ian Wilson, Christopher J. Howe and Alistair J. McCormick
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP42526B, Paper

FREE: The role of biofuels in the future energy supply
Luis Caspeta, Nicolaas A. A. Buijs and Jens Nielsen
DOI: 10.1039/C3EE24403B, Opinion

FREE: Implanted biofuel cells operating in vivo – methods, applications and perspectives – feature article
Evgeny Katz and Kevin MacVittie
DOI: 10.1039/C3EE42126K, Opinion

FREE: Enzymes and bio-inspired electrocatalysts in solar fuel devices
Thomas W. Woolerton, Sally Sheard, Yatendra S. Chaudhary and Fraser A. Armstrong
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE21471G, Perspective

FREE: From biodiesel and bioethanol to liquid hydrocarbon fuels: new hydrotreating and advanced microbial technologies
Juan Carlos Serrano-Ruiz, Enrique V. Ramos-Fernández and Antonio Sepúlveda-Escribano
DOI: 10.1039/C1EE02418C, Perspective

FREE: Immobilization technology: a sustainable solution for biofuel cell design
Xiao-Yu Yang, Ge Tian, Nan Jiang and Bao-Lian Su
DOI: 10.1039/C1EE02391H, Review Article

FREE: Oxygen-tolerant coenzyme A-acylating aldehyde dehydrogenase facilitates efficient photosynthetic n-butanol biosynthesis in cyanobacteria
Ethan I. Lan, Soo Y. Ro and James C. Liao
DOI: 10.1039/C3EE41405A, Paper

FREE: Engineered yeast for enhanced CO2 mineralization
Roberto Barbero, Lino Carnelli, Anna Simon, Albert Kao, Alessandra d’Arminio Monforte, Moreno Riccò, Daniele Bianchi and Angela Belcher
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE24060B, Paper

FREE: Layered corrugated electrode macrostructures boost microbial bioelectrocatalysis
Shuiliang Chen, Guanghua He, Qin Liu, Falk Harnisch, Yan Zhou, Yu Chen, Muddasir Hanif, Suqin Wang, Xinwen Peng, Haoqing Hou and Uwe Schröder
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE23344D, Communication

FREE: An extremely radioresistant green eukaryote for radionuclide bio-decontamination in the nuclear industry
Corinne Rivasseau, Emmanuel Farhi, Ariane Atteia, Alain Couté, Marina Gromova, Diane de Gouvion Saint Cyr, Anne-Marie Boisson, Anne-Sophie Féret, Estelle Compagnon and Richard Bligny
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE23129H, Paper

FREE: Living battery – biofuel cells operating in vivo in clams
Alon Szczupak, Jan Halámek, Lenka Halámková, Vera Bocharova, Lital Alfonta and Evgeny Katz
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE21626D, Communication

Nanoscale publishes community-spanning research across the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Its Impact Factor is currently 6.23.

FREE: The interplay between carbon nanomaterials and amyloid fibrils in bio-nanotechnology
Chaoxu Li and Raffaele Mezzenga
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01644G, Review Article

FREE: Lanthanide-doped luminescent nano-bioprobes: from fundamentals to biodetection
Yongsheng Liu, Datao Tu, Haomiao Zhu, En Ma and Xueyuan Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR33239F, Feature Article

FREE: Cholesterol – a biological compound as a building block in bionanotechnology
Leticia Hosta-Rigau, Yan Zhang, Boon M. Teo, Almar Postma and Brigitte Städler
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32923A, Feature Article

FREE: Plant mediated green synthesis: modified approaches
Ratul Kumar Das and Satinder Kaur Brar
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02548A, Minireview

FREE: Graphene: a versatile nanoplatform for biomedical applications
Yin Zhang, Tapas R. Nayak, Hao Hong and Weibo Cai
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31040F, Review Article

FREE: Nanocellulose electroconductive composites
Zhijun Shi, Glyn O. Phillips and Guang Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00408B, Minireview

FREE: Recombinant antibody mediated delivery of organelle-specific DNA pH sensors along endocytic pathways.
Yamuna Krishnan, Souvik Modi, Saheli Halder and Clément Nizak
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03769J, Paper

FREE: Multi-enzyme Co-Embedded Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanoflowers: Synthesis and Application in Colorimetric Sensor
Jiayu Sun, Jiechao Ge, Weimin Liu, Minhuan Lan, Hongyan Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Yanming Wang and Zhongwei Niu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04425D, Paper

FREE: An unusual pathway for the membrane wrapping of rodlike nanoparticles and the orientation- and membrane wrapping-dependent nanoparticle interaction
Tongtao Yue, Xiaojuan Wang, Fang Huang and Xianren Zhang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02683C, Paper

FREE: Flash photo stimulation of human neural stem cells on graphene/TiO2 heterojunction for differentiation into neurons
Omid Akhavan and Elham Ghaderi
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02161K, Paper

FREE: Bio-nanohybrids of quantum dots and photoproteins facilitating strong nonradiative energy transfer
Urartu Ozgur Safak Seker, Evren Mutlugun, Pedro Ludwig Hernandez-Martinez, Vijay K. Sharma, Vladimir Lesnyak, Nikolai Gaponik, Alexander Eychmüller and Hilmi Volkan Demir
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01417G, Paper

FREE: A methodology for preparing nanostructured biomolecular interfaces with high enzymatic activity
Lu Shin Wong, Chinnan V. Karthikeyan, Daniel J. Eichelsdoerfer, Jason Micklefield and Chad A. Mirkin
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11443C, Paper

You can now find “Altmetric” data for articles in PCCP on our website, alongside information about citations to our articles.

With a constantly changing publishing landscape and changes to the way people use scientific literature, altmetrics is a measure that can monitor the level of conversation and interest in a particular piece of research at the article level. The different colours in the Altmetric “donut” indicate the number of times the article has been mentioned on Twitter, Facebook, newspapers, blogs and other outlets.

So get involved: tweet about your latest article, share a link to an interesting Perspective on Facebook, and spread the word about some of the excellent science being published.

PCCP is on Twitter (@PCCP) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/PCCPjournal), tweeting and posting about events you may find interesting as well as our latest hot articles and news. If you are using these social media sites too, please do follow/like us.

The current top ten scoring articles in PCCP according to Altmetrics are:

Waste to real energy: the first MFC powered mobile phone
Ioannis A. Ieropoulos, Pablo Ledezma, Andrew Stinchcombe, George Papaharalabos, Chris Melhuish and John Greenman
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52889H

Urine utilisation by microbial fuel cells; energy fuel for the future
Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman and Chris Melhuish
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP23213D

Graphene oxide for effective radionuclide removal
Anna Yu. Romanchuk, Alexander S. Slesarev, Stepan N. Kalmykov, Dmitry V. Kosynkin and James M. Tour
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP44593J

Integrated microfluidic test-bed for energy conversion devices
Miguel A. Modestino, Camilo A. Diaz-Botia, Sophia Haussener, Rafael Gomez-Sjoberg, Joel W. Ager and Rachel A. Segalman
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51302E

A quasi-liquid polymer-based cobalt redox mediator electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells
Muthuraaman Bhagavathi Achari, Viswanathan Elumalai, Nick Vlachopoulos, Majid Safdari, Jiajia Gao, James M. Gardner and Lars Kloo
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52869C

A suggested periodic table up to Z ≤ 172, based on Dirac–Fock calculations on atoms and ions
Pekka Pyykkö
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01575J

Vibrationally assisted electron transfer mechanism of olfaction: myth or reality?
Ilia A. Solov’yov, Po-Yao Chang and Klaus Schulten
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41436H

Novel stable compounds in the Mg–O system under high pressure
Qiang Zhu, Artem R. Oganov and Andriy O. Lyakhov
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50678A

Limitations and high pressure behavior of MOF-5 for CO2 capture
Joo Young Jung, Ferdi Karadas, Sonia Zulfiqar, Erhan Deniz, Santiago Aparicio, Mert Atilhan, Cafer T. Yavuz and Seung Min Han
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51768C

CVD formation of graphene on SiC surface in argon atmosphere
Małgorzata Wierzbowska, Adam Dominiak and Kamil Tokar
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44378G

We are interested to hear your feedback on this new development and how you are utilising these new types of metrics. Please email us (pccp-rsc@rsc.org)

Take a look at this week’s HOT articles, which are free to access for a limited time:

Elucidating the mechanism behind the stabilization of multi-charged metal cations in water: a case study of the electronic states of microhydrated Mg2+, Ca2+ and Al3+
Evangelos Miliordos and Sotiris S. Xantheas
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53636J, Communication

Oxygen reduction at sparse arrays of platinum nanoparticles in aqueous acid: hydrogen peroxide as a liberated two electron intermediate
Matthew Gara, Eduardo Laborda, Philip Holdway, Alison Crossley, Charles J. V. Jones and Richard G. Compton
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53684J, Paper

Electronic spectroscopy of transient species in solid neon: the indene-motif polycyclic hydrocarbon cation family C9Hy+ (y = 7–9) and their neutrals
Adam Nagy, Iryna Garkusha, Jan Fulara and John P. Maier
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52172A, Perspective

Coarse-graining DNA for simulations of DNA nanotechnology
Jonathan P. K. Doye, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Ard A. Louis, Flavio Romano, Petr Šulc, Christian Matek, Benedict E. K. Snodin, Lorenzo Rovigatti, John S. Schreck, Ryan M. Harrison and William P. J. Smith
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53545B, Perspective

Effect of tight flavin mononucleotide wrapping and its binding affinity on carbon nanotube covalent reactivities
Jinsook Sim, Hyunkyu Oh, Eunhye Koo and Sang-Yong Ju
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53634C, Paper

Modeling biofilms with dual extracellular electron transfer mechanisms
Ryan Renslow, Jerome Babauta, Andrew Kuprat, Jim Schenk, Cornelius Ivory, Jim Fredrickson and Haluk Beyenal
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53759E, Paper