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Biomolecular toolkit for building bioelectrochemical interfaces

05 Jul 2012

Scientists in Argentina, Germany and Austria have made electrodes by combining enzymes and mediators using concanavalin A (Con A) as a binding reagent.

This introduces a new and flexible way to assemble functional multi-enzyme layers and architectures on an electrode surface, forming highly versatile enzymatic electrodes.

Using redox-active Con A as a biorecognisable platform enables spontaneous assembly. Electrical wiring of multiple enzyme layers onto electrodes is an unexplored research topic and this is the first study on this.

The research could be used to create functional soft biointerfaces displaying specific building blocks at controlled sites into 3D interfacial nanoarchitectures.

Read the PCCP article today hot off the press:

Recognition-Driven Layer-by-Layer Construction of Multiprotein Assemblies on Surfaces:
Biomolecular Toolkit for Building Up Chemoresponsive Bioelectrochemical Interfaces
Diego Pallarola et al.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41225j

PCCP publishes great research in the fields of biophysical chemistry and biophysics – take a look at the PCCP Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry themed issue series.

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Poster Prizes: Theoretical Chemistry Group Graduate Student Meeting

03 Jul 2012

By Aliya Anwar.

It was a pleasure for PCCP to award Poster Prizes at the recent TCG Graduate Student Meeting which took place in May at Kings College, London.

The winners were Gabrielle Tocci (University College London) for his poster entitled: ‘Structure and dynamics of the water-ZnO(10-10) interface from density functional theory’ and Leo Holroyd (University of St Andrews) for his poster: ‘Structure and energetics of the mutagenic base analog 5-bromouracil’

PCCP Poster Prize winners Gabrielle Tocci and Leo Holroyd

PCCP is pleased to continue to support the TCG by sponsoring the student prizes again this year.

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Xanthines may have been building blocks in prebiotic Earth

02 Jul 2012

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

US-based scientists Jinquan Chen and Bern Kohler have studied the excited-state dynamics of 5 xanthine derivatives. The compounds display ultrashort excited state lifetimes – analogous to adenine and guanine – and the authors conclude that these compounds may be candidates for the building blocks of life on prebiotic Earth.

Read this fascinating PCCP paper today:

Ultrafast nonradiative decay by hypoxanthine and several methylxanthines in aqueous and acetonitrile solution
Jinquan Chen and Bern Kohler
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41296A

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PCCP, Repositories and Open Access

29 Jun 2012

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

We know it’s important to our authors to make their research as visible as possible; and they want to share their latest results with their colleagues right away. Many of you also now have open access requirements from funding agencies, such as NIH and EPSRC. So, PCCP wants to make things easy for you.

PCCP has a straight-forward policy:

We allow deposition of your submitted manuscript in non-commercial pre-submission repositories (such as ArXiV)

You can deposit the accepted version of your PCCP article in a non-commercial repository (this includes institution and funding body repositories)

You can also share your research via your personal website(s) or your institute’s intranet

RSC Publishing also offer authors the opportunity to make their article free to access for all via the web with our Open Science option

PCCP article templates

We also know that when our authors use repositories, they want the original version of their article to look as professional as possible. This is why we provide a handy PCCP article template so you can quickly prepare your article for submission. Our (optional) templates are available in Microsoft Word or LaTeX to suit our authors working across the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.

For full details of our deposition and open access policies please see our website or the summary on the RSC Publishing blog.

We hope this has made things clearer for you and we encourage you to submit your best research to PCCP.

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PCCP latest Impact Factor

29 Jun 2012

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

The latest citation data released by Thomson ISI reveals that PCCP’s latest (2011) Impact Factor has risen to 3.573.

PCCP has a large and truly international readership, which spans many communities in the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.

With fast publication times and great author service, PCCP remains the ideal home for high-quality research.

We thank all of our authors, readers and referees for their continued support of the journal.

We invite you to submit your next high-quality paper to PCCP.

Find out how RSC journals are ranked in the latest Impact Factor release.

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21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21)

28 Jun 2012

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

Poster abstract and early bird registration deadline 13 July 2012

There is still just time to submit your poster abstract to the 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21) but don’t delay.

The deadline date of 13 July is for both poster abstracts and early bird registrations.

Why join ICPOC21?

This meeting is organised by the Organic Division of the RSC on behalf of IUPAC. In addition to outstanding plenary sessions, there will be three parallel sessions over the five days comprising invited lectures and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions.

Key topics that will be covered in the meeting include:

Physical underpinnings
Mechanism and Catalysis
Supramolecular and Systems Chemistry

A broad range of scientists from across the whole community who share a quantitative perspective on chemistry will be there, providing an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the current status, development, and the future of physical organic chemistry.

Make sure you are one of them! Don’t miss the poster abstract submission and early bird registration deadline – 13 July 2012.

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Reaction study gives new insights into reaction pathway

28 Jun 2012

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

New mechanistic insights using multiplexed photoionization mass spectrometry

A study on the reaction of O(³P) with propene using time-resolved photoionisation mass spectrometry has revealed new insights into the reaction pathways and products, including free radicals and closed-shell molecules, say US scientists.

The study also revealed important reaction pathways that lead to products on the C₃H₆O potential energy surface, including unexpected intersystem crossing from the triplet state to the lower-lying singlet states.

The research, it is claimed, has made way for further understanding of the kinetics of all polyatomic multichannel reactions.

Read the ‘HOT’ PCCP paper:

New Mechanistic Insights to the O(³P) + Propene Reaction from Multiplexed Photoionization Mass Spectrometry
J D Savee et al,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41200d

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Professor Gabor A Somorjai joins PCCP Honorary Board

22 Jun 2012

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce that Professor Gabor A. Somorjai of the University of California, Berkeley has joined the Honorary Board of the journal. Professor Somorjai’s research interests are in the fields of surface science, solid state chemistry and catalysis. During his long career Prof. Somorjai has published >1000 scientific papers and received many awards and honours.

Read Professor Somorjai’s recent PCCP articles today:

Rh_1−xPd_x nanoparticle composition dependence in CO oxidation by oxygen: catalytic activity enhancement in bimetallic systems
James Russell Renzas, Wenyu Huang, Yawen Zhang, Michael E. Grass, Dat Tien Hoang, Selim Alayoglu, Derek R. Butcher, Franklin (Feng) Tao, Zhi Liu and Gabor A. Somorjai
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01858A

The evolution of model catalytic systems; studies of structure, bonding and dynamics from single crystal metal surfaces to nanoparticles, and from low pressure (<10⁻³ Torr) to high pressure (>10⁻³ Torr) to liquid interfaces
Gabor A. Somorjai, Roger L. York, Derek Butcher and Jeong Y. Park
DOI: 10.1039/B618805B

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Bunsentagung 2012 PCCP Prizes

21 Jun 2012

By Aliya Anwar.

PCCP is delighted to announce the following winners from the recent Bunsentagung 2012 which took place last month in Leipzig, Germany.

The winners of the PCCP Poster Prize were: Dr. Jan Philipp Hofmann (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Dr. Axel Rosenhahn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and Dr. Felix Plamper (RWTH Aachen University, Germany).

PCCP Poster Prize winners Dr. Jan Philipp Hofmann, Dr. Axel Rosenhahn and Dr. Felix Plamper with PCCP Ownership Board member Professor Martin Quack

A further 10 winners were also awarded with the PCCP ‘Hot Topics’ Prize:

Dr. Andreas Hofmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Inga Niedermaier (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Benedikt Uhl (University of Ulm)
Dr. Ian Grant (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Henrike Müller-Werkmeister (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Nancy Faßheber (University of Kiel)
Dr. Maik Eichelbaum (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
Dr. Axel Pramann (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
Andreas Lesch (The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
Roland Frach (TU Dortmand University)

All prizes were presented by Professor Martin Quack, member of the PCCP Ownership Board. PCCP is co-owned by 17 national Societies including the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (DBG). Every time a paper by an author based in Germany 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.

PCCP has just published a great themed issue on Interfaces of Ionic Liquids to accompany this year’s ‘Hauptthema’ – take a look at the issue today.

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Biomolecular toolkit for building bioelectrochemical interfaces

Poster Prizes: Theoretical Chemistry Group Graduate Student Meeting

Top 10 most-read PCCP articles in May

Xanthines may have been building blocks in prebiotic Earth

PCCP, Repositories and Open Access

PCCP latest Impact Factor

21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21)

Reaction study gives new insights into reaction pathway

Professor Gabor A Somorjai joins PCCP Honorary Board

Bunsentagung 2012 PCCP Prizes

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