PCCP at Bunsentagung 2012

PCCP Deputy Editor Jane Hordern will be attending the Bunsentagung 2012 meeting in Leipzig, Germany later this month.  If you are also attending, do please visit our stand – we’d love to see you and get your feedback.

 PCCP activities with DBG and Bunsentagung:

  • Hauptthema themed issue: PCCP has just published a great issue on Interfaces of Ionic Liquids to accompany this year’s meeting – free copies will be available at our stand.

 

  • PCCP Prizes: For the 6th consecutive year PCCP is proud to sponsor Poster Prizes and “hot topic” awards at the Bunsentagung, rewarding outstanding research from younger scientists.

 

  • Co-Owner of PCCP: PCCP is co-owned by 18 national Societies including the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft 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 very well represented on PCCP’s Boards. We are delighted to announce Frank Neese as Associate Editor, and privileged to have Stefan Grimme, Wolfgang Lubitz, Manfred Martin, Gerard Meijer, Helmuth Möhwald, Joachim Sauer, Ferdi Schüth, Martin Suhm, Jürgen Troe and Hans-Joachim Werner on our Editorial and Advisory Boards.

 

PCCP has a large and truly international readership, which spans many communities across physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. 

 We publish insightful research of the highest quality – we invite you to submit your latest work today.

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Metal-organic framework is redox active

The metal–organic framework (MOF) Cu-BTC has been the subject of extensive study, but now scientists working in the USA and France have found evidence that the material has potentially important redox properties. Previously small quantities of Cu+ observed in the MOF had been attributed to impurities but Szanyi et al. have shown that the ratio of Cu+ : Cu2+ in the framework can be altered by varying the conditions the material is exposed to.  This exciting work has been highlighted in phys.org.

Read the full details of this PCCP article today:

Well-studied Cu–BTC still serves surprises: evidence for facile Cu2+/Cu+ interchange
Janos Szanyi, Marco Daturi, Guillaume Clet, Donald R. Baer and Charles H. F. Peden
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP23708C

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2012 PCCP – Chemical Society of Japan Prizes

We are delighted to announce the following winners of the 2012 PCCP Prizes for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics.

Winners of the 2012 PCCP Prizes for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics

Dr. Shuhei Furukawa  (Kyoto University), Dr. Kazuhiko Maeda (The University of Tokyo) and Dr. Satoshi Maeda (Kyoto University) who were all awarded with a commemorative book, a PCCP Prize certificate and a financial award.

The Prizes were presented by Professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa, CSJ President and PCCP Advisory Board member and Dr Niamh O’Connor, PCCP Publisher at the “International Chemists’ Evening” reception held during the 92nd Chemical Society Japan (CSJ) Annual Meeting in March.

Submit your lastest research to PCCP today!

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Deadline reminder: Organic electronics themed issue

There is still time to submit an article to the PCCP themed issue on “Organic electronics – new physical chemistry insight”.

Guest Editors: Prof. Wenping Hu (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Henning Sirringhaus (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University) and Prof. Yutai Tao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan).

Deadline for Submissions: 14th May, 2012

Organic electronics has attracted the world’s attention due to the great promise of organic electronic devices for practical applications, from organic light-emitting diodes to organic solar cells and field-effect transistors as well as other new relevant fields. Key challenges in this field include the low mobility of organic semiconductors, low stability of organic devices, the role of interfaces and device physics etc. And a lack of understanding of the structure–property relationships of organic semiconductors still hampers their rational design.

This themed issue will highlight the tremendous progress that has been made in this field and will help foster new ideas for future advances in solving the physical chemistry challenges of organic electronics.

  • Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service
  • Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research
  • Communications and full papers can be submitted for consideration, which will be subject to rigorous peer review
  • Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue

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Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics themed issue now online!

OFC_18We are delighted to announce the online publication of our PCCP themed issue on Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics.

The issue was Guest Edited by Neil T. Hunt from the  University of Strathclyde and Klaas Wynne from the University of Glasgow.

This themed issue on Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics features a broad range of articles including the Editorial:

Ultrafast chemical dynamics
Klaas Wynne and Neil T. Hunt
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 6154-6155
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP90065C

IFC_18And the following Communication and ‘HOT’ Papers:

Take a look at the issue today!

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Top 10 most-read PCCP articles in February

This month sees the following articles in PCCP that are in the top ten most accessed in February:

Density Functional Theory for Transition Metals and Transition Metal Chemistry 
Christopher J. Cramer and Donald G. Truhlar
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 10757-10816
DOI: 10.1039/B907148B

Solar hydrogen production with semiconductor metal oxides: New directions in experiment and theory
Álvaro Valdés, Jeremie Brillet, Michael Grätzel, Hildur Gudmundsdóttir, Heine A. Hansen, Hannes Jónsson, Peter Klüpfel, Geert-Jan Kroes, Florian Le Formal, Isabela C. Man, Rafael S. Martins, Jens K. Nørskov, Jan Rossmeisl, Kevin Sivula, Aleksandra Vojvodic and Michael Zäch  
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 49-70
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP23212F 

Graphene-based Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage: Fuel cells, Supercapacitors and Lithium Ion Batteries 
Junbo Hou, Yuyan Shao, Michael W. Ellis, Robert B. Moore and Baolian Yi
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 15384-15402 
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21915D 

Activated graphene as cathode material for Li-ion hybrid supercapacitors
Meryl D. Stoller, Shanthi Murali, Neil Quarles, Yanwu Zhu, Jeffrey R. Potts, Xianjun Zhu, Hyung-Wook Ha and Rodney S. Ruoff  
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 3388-3391
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP00017B 

Carbon materials for supercapacitor application 
Elzbieta Frackowiak
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2007, 9, 1774-1785
DOI: 10.1039/B618139M

Facile Preparation of Nitrogen-doped Graphene as a Metal-free Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Ziyin Lin, Min-kyu Song, Yong Ding, Yan Liu, Meilin Liu and Ching-ping Wong
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 3381-3387
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP00032F

Interfacial modification of organic photovoltaic devices by molecular self-organization 
Akira Tada, Yanfang Geng, Motoshi Nakamura, Qingshuo Wei, Kazuhito Hashimoto and Keisuke Tajima
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 3713-3724
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40198C 

Characterization of nanostructured hybrid and organic solar cells by impedance spectroscopy
Francisco Fabregat-Santiago, Germà Garcia-Belmonte, Iván Mora-Seró and Juan Bisquert
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 9083-9118
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02249G 

Analytical Methods for Separating and Isolating Magnetic Nanoparticles 
Jason R. Stephens, Jacob S. Beveridge and Mary Elizabeth Williams
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 3280-3289
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP22982J 

Air and water stable ionic liquids in physical chemistry
Frank Endres and Sherif Zein El Abedin 
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8, 2101-2116 
DOI: 10.1039/B600519P

Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.

Fancy submitting an article to PCCP? Then why not submit to us today!

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Preventing pipe clogging during deep water oil drilling

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have studied the growth of hydrate materials on various surfaces. Their research is important as these hydrates can, and do, form on the surface of the pipes which are used in deep water oil drilling causing expensive blockages. The authors suggest that by using “hydrate-phobic” pipe materials such problems could be reduced. Their MIT press release can be found here.

Read the full details of this exciting research today:

Hydrate-phobic surfaces: fundamental studies in clathrate hydrate adhesion reduction
J. David Smith , Adam J. Meuler , Harrison L. Bralower , Rama Venkatesan , Sivakumar Subramanian , Robert E. Cohen , Gareth H. McKinley and Kripa K. Varanasi
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40581D

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Modelling the dynamics of crowded enzymes

The folding of proteins in a living cell is affected by all the other species present in the cell which can get in the way. Hence studying protein folding in solution does not give a full picture of what really happens in cells.

Raymond Kapral and Carlos Echeverriaab working at the University of Toronto and the Universidad de Los Andes used computer simulations to understand the effects of crowding on the folding of the adenylate kinase protein.

They found that when there were a lot of obstacles present along with the protein it was more likely to be in a closed confirmation, and interestingly that small obstacles could interact with the protein so that it was locked in an open confirmation.

The authors suggest that their method could be extended to provide further information on protein dynamics in more realistic models of crowded systems.

Read this HOT article today:

Molecular crowding and protein enzymatic dynamics
Carlos Echeverria and Raymond Kapral
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40200A

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Thermo-Hilger Award and Allan Ure Bursary – nominations open

The Thermo-Hilger Award and Allan Ure Bursary are now open for nominations or applications.

Closing date: 30 April 2012

The Thermo-Hilger Award is presented biennially to an RSC member in the early stages of their career  who uses atomic spectrometry during their work.

The winner receives a cash/book prize and free registration (including meals, events and conference dinner) to attend a major national conference on atomic spectroscopy.

The Allan Ure Bursary is awarded annually to a scientist, at the start of their career, who has made a significant contribution to the application of atomic spectrometry to environmental science.

The successful applicant will receive £500 to help with any expenses that may be of benefit to their career. For example, this could be to travel to or attend a conference, so that they may present their work.

More details about the prizes and how to apply can be found on the Atomic Spectroscopy Group Awards page.

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ICPOC21: oral abstract submission deadline 13th April

Good news!

There’s still a chance to submit your oral abstract to ICPOC21: 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry to be held 9 – 13 September 2012 at Durham University.

The Scientific Committee is currently reviewing all submissions, and has agreed to accept contributions up to Friday 13 April to allow for the Easter holiday break.

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 oral abstract submission deadline – 13 April.

ICPOC 21: 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry 9-13 September 2012, Durham University, UK

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