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This week’s HOT articles

16 Sep 2013

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees

Take a look at this week’s selection…

Hyperpolarized 1H long lived states originating from parahydrogen accessed by rf irradiation
M. B. Franzoni, D. Graafen, L. Buljubasich, L. M. Schreiber, H. W. Spiess and K. Münnemann
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52029C

Blood electrolytes exhibit a strong influence on the mobility of artificial catalytic microengines
Hong Wang, Guanjia Zhao and Martin Pumera
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52726C

An improved AMBER force field for α,α-dialkylated peptides: intrinsic and solvent-induced conformational preferences of model systems
Sonja Grubišić, Giuseppe Brancato and Vincenzo Barone
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52721B

Time resolved dynamics of phonons and rotons in solid parahydrogen
Falk Königsmann, Nikolaus Schwentner and David T. Anderson
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52055B

Theoretical analysis and quantification of the absorption spectra of uranyl complexes with structurally-related tridentate ligands
Guokui Liu, Linfeng Rao and Guoxin Tian
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52900B

Non-purged voltammetry explored with AGNES
D. Aguilar, J. Galceran, E. Companys, J. Puy, C. Parat, L. Authier and M. Potin-Gautier
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52836G

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This week’s HOT articles

10 Sep 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees.

Take a look at this week’s selection by clicking on the links below…

First-principles identifications of superstructures of germanene on Ag(111) surface and h-BN substrate
Linyang Li and Mingwen Zhao
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52619D, Paper

Light-induced reactivation of O2-tolerant membrane-bound [Ni–Fe] hydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus under turnover conditions
Alexandre Ciaccafava, Cyrille Hamon, Pascale Infossi, Valérie Marchi, Marie-Thérèse Giudici-Orticoni and Elisabeth Lojou
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52596A, Communication

Rectification properties of conically shaped nanopores: consequences of miniaturization
J.-F. Pietschmann, M.-T. Wolfram, M. Burger, C. Trautmann, G. Nguyen, M. Pevarnik, V. Bayer and Z. Siwy
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53105H, Paper

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

The Kohn–Sham gap, the fundamental gap and the optical gap: the physical meaning of occupied and virtual Kohn–Sham orbital energies
E. J. Baerends, O. V. Gritsenko and R. van Meer
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52547C, Perspective

Fast sensors for time-of-flight imaging applications
Claire Vallance, Mark Brouard, Alexandra Lauer, Craig S. Slater, Edward Halford, Benjamin Winter, Simon J. King, Jason W. L. Lee, Daniel E. Pooley, Iain Sedgwick, Renato Turchetta, Andrei Nomerotski, Jaya John John and Laura Hill
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53183J, Perspective

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PCCP sponsored Young Investigator Winners at the Gordon Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces

28 Aug 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

The Gordon Research Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces was held at Salve Regina University on the 11-16th August 2013.

The meeting was a great success with over 100 attendees. A huge proportion of these – 60 – participated in the Young Investigator Competition. PCCP sponsored the three winners of the competition to attend the meeting and they gave their excellent oral presentations on the final night.

The winners were:

Joerg Meyer (2nd from left), TU MUENCHEN, Non Adiabatic Vibrational Damping of O2 on Ag(100): Implications for Light Enhanced Catalysis.
Jennifer Faust (center), UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, Surfactant Promoted Reactions at Gas Liquid Interfaces: Startling Implications for Tropospheric Aerosol Chemistry
Morten Hundt (2nd from right), ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Vibrationally Promoted Chemisorption of Water on Ni(111)

Congratulations winners!

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This week’s HOT articles

28 Aug 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees.

Take a look at this week’s selection by clicking on the links below…

On the stability of cationic complexes of neon with helium – solving an experimental discrepancy
Peter Bartl, Stephan Denifl, Paul Scheier and Olof Echt
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52550C, Paper

Chemically activated formation of organic acids in reactions of the Criegee intermediate with aldehydes and ketones
Amrit Jalan, Joshua W. Allen and William H. Green
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52598H, Paper

Chemically activated formation of organic acids in reactions of the Criegee intermediate with aldehydes and ketones

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PCCP themed issue: Physical Chemistry of Nanoparticles

23 Aug 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce a forthcoming high-profile themed issue on “Physical Chemistry of Nanoparticles”, with Guest Editors Jochen Küpper (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY and University of Hamburg) Alf Mews and Horst Weller (University of Hamburg).

This will be the official themed issue of the international Bunsentagung 2014 meeting on the same theme organised by the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft (DBG) which takes place in 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. Free copies of the themed issue will be available at the meeting, maximising the visibility and profile of all published papers.

Deadline for submissions: 20^th December 2013

If you wish to contribute to this themed issue, please contact the PCCP Editorial Office: pccp-rsc@rsc.org

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Superresolution imaging and fabrication with light – PCCP themed collection, Issue 36

22 Aug 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

PCCP is delighted to present its current issue which includes an excellent collection of articles on the theme of Superresolution imaging and fabrication with light, Guest Edited by Françisco M. Raymo. Read his Perspective article to find out more about some of the latest developments in this exciting field.

The outside front cover features a Single molecule recordings of lysozyme activity article by Yongki Choi, Gregory A. Weiss and Philip G. Collins.

Highlights of this issue include:

Activation of BODIPY fluorescence by the photoinduced dealkylation of a pyridinium quencher
Sherif Shaban Ragab, Subramani Swaminathan, James D. Baker and Françisco M. Raymo

Understanding super-resolution nanoscopy and its biological applications in cell imaging
Dehong Hu, Baoming Zhao, Yumei Xie, Galya Orr and Alexander D. Q. Li

Radical diffusion limits to photoinhibited superresolution lithography
Darren L. Forman, Michael C. Cole and Robert R. McLeod

Determination of two-photon photoactivation rates of fluorescent proteins
Tobias M. P. Hartwich, Fedor V. Subach, Lynn Cooley, Vladislav V. Verkhusha and Joerg Bewersdorf

Sensitized excited free-radical processes as read–write tools: impact on non-linear lithographic processes
Stefania Impellizzeri, Kevin G. Stamplecoskie and Juan. C. Scaiano

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UK-Asia International Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics

21 Aug 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

The UK-Asia International Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics will be held at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing on the 9-11 December 2013. More details of the excellent speakers on the website. Free online registration here.

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This week’s HOT articles

19 Aug 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

You can take a look at the excellent articles we have selected this week by clicking on the links below:

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

Modulation of the stability of amyloidogenic precursors by anion binding strongly influences the rate of amyloid nucleation
David Ruzafa, Francisco Conejero-Lara and Bertrand Morel
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52313F

Electron transfer with azurin at Au–SAM junctions in contact with a protic ionic melt: impact of glassy dynamics
Dimitri E. Khoshtariya, Tina D. Dolidze, Tatyana Tretyakova, David H. Waldeck and Rudi van Eldik
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP51896E

Stabilizing effect of electrostatic vs. aromatic interactions in diproline nucleated peptide β-hairpins
Kamlesh Madhusudan Makwana, Srinivasarao Raghothama and Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52770K

Accurate adsorption energies of small molecules on oxide surfaces: CO–MgO(001)
A. Daniel Boese and Joachim Sauer
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52321G

Solution-processed small molecule:fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells: impedance spectroscopy deduced bulk and interfacial limits to fill-factors
Antonio Guerrero, Stephen Loser, Germà Garcia-Belmonte, Carson J. Bruns, Jeremy Smith, Hiroyuki Miyauchi, Samuel I. Stupp, Juan Bisquert and Tobin J. Marks
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52363B

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Katsuhiko Ariga Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

16 Aug 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

PCCP Associate Editor Katsuhiko Ariga has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr.Katsuhiko Ariga has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Professor Ariga is a Principal Investigator at MANA and is the Director of Supermolecules Group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. His research covers supermolecular chemistry and surface science, including the boundaries between organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and materials chemistry. He is well-known for his work on supramolecular recognition at interfaces and on biomimetic systems.

Submit your work to Professor Ariga’s Editorial Office.

Check out Ariga’s recent Perspective article in PCCP:

Amphiphile nanoarchitectonics: from basic physical chemistry to advanced applications
Muruganathan Ramanathan, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Taizo Mori, Qingmin Ji, Jonathan P. Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 10580-10611
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50620G, Perspective

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This week’s HOT articles

12 Aug 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees…

You can take a look at the excellent articles we have selected this week by clicking on the links below:

Interaction of electrolyte molecules with carbon materials of well-defined porosity: characterization by solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Lars Borchardt, Martin Oschatz, Silvia Paasch, Stefan Kaskel and Eike Brunner
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52283K

CuOx–TiO₂ junction: what is the active component for photocatalytic H₂ production?
Zhonglei Wang, Yuanxu Liu, David James Martin, Wendong Wang, Junwang Tang and Weixin Huang
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52496E

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This week’s HOT articles

This week’s HOT articles

PCCP sponsored Young Investigator Winners at the Gordon Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces

This week’s HOT articles

PCCP themed issue: Physical Chemistry of Nanoparticles

Superresolution imaging and fabrication with light – PCCP themed collection, Issue 36

UK-Asia International Symposium on Organic Optoelectronics

This week’s HOT articles

Katsuhiko Ariga Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

This week’s HOT articles

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