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Hydrogen Storage Materials: Faraday Discussions 151 published online

11 Aug 2011

Faraday Discussions 151: Hydrogen Storage Materials has now been published online

Take a look at this exciting volume today which covers the following themes:

Theory and spectroscopic methods to understand hydrogenation/dehydrogenation mechanisms
Novel approaches: hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of organic molecules, encapsulation of nanosized materials
Chemical hydrogen
Adsorbed/physisorbed hydrogen on or in MOFs and other materials with large surface area
Applications including uses for automotives and novel battery materials

Highlights from the volume include:

Performance of a metal hydride store on the “Ross Barlow” hydrogen powered canal boat
A. I. Bevan, A. Züttel, D. Book and I. R. Harris
Faraday Discuss., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0FD00025F

Performance of a full-scale hydrogen-storage tank based on complex hydrides
Terry A. Johnson, Scott W. Jorgensen and Daniel E. Dedrick
Faraday Discuss., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0FD00017E

Hydrogen as a fuel for today and tomorrow: expectations for advanced hydrogen storage materials/systems research
Katsuhiko Hirose, Introductory Lecture
Faraday Discuss., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00099C

Read about the conference highlights and see photos from the meeting.

You can purchase this volume as an individual book through our website.

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PCCP Poster Prize at Free Radicals Symposium

05 Aug 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

PCCP was delighted to sponsor the 31st Symposium on Free Radicals, held last week in Port Douglas, Australia, where a PCCP student Poster Prize was awarded.

The symposium was chaired by Evan Bieske and Scott Kable and around 100 scientific participants attended the meeting, along with their families. The strong scientific activity was reflected through 35 talks and 60 poster presentations. The meeting had 80 scientists from Japan, Taiwan, USA and Europe, and around 20 from Australia.

Congratulations to James Ge who was awarded with the PCCP Student Prize.

Submit your lastest research to PCCP today!

James Ge being presented with the PCCP Student Poster Prize by Professor Scott Kable.

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Themed issue: Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects?

01 Aug 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

PCCP is delighted to present its current issue as a themed issue on Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects?, Guest Edited by Wouter Herrebout (University of Antwerp) and Martin Suhm (University of Göttingen).

The cover image of this issue features the work of Dr Kisiel and co-workers on structure and properties of the (HCl)₂H₂O cluster, observed using chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy (DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20841A).

Highlights in the issue include these high-profile Perspective feature articles:

Weak H-bonds. Comparisons of CHO to NHO in proteins and PHN to direct PN interactions
Steve Scheiner
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20427K

The CH/π hydrogen bond in chemistry. Conformation, supramolecules, optical resolution and interactions involving carbohydrates
Motohiro Nishio
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20404A

“Union is strength”: how weak hydrogen bonds become stronger
Sonia Melandri
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20824A

Browse this high-profile themed issue today!

Call for papers: hydrogen bonding in electronically excited states

To complement this latest issue, PCCP is planning a themed issue in early 2012 which will focus on hydrogen bonding in electronically excited states.
Please submit your paper by 5 December 2011

Find out more about PCCP themed issues on our website.

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PCCP Poster Prize at CASE 2011

29 Jul 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

PCCP was delighted to sponsor a poster prize at the Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment symposium (CASE 2011) in Birmingham last week.

Congratulations to Abhishek Kardam (Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India) who won the PCCP Prize. Abhishek was awarded at prize certificate as well as an RSC book.

To find out more about the symposium, visit the CASE 2011 webpage, where you can also view all the photos!

Submit your lastest catalysis research to PCCP

CASE prize winners

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PCCP animated graphical abstract attracts attention!

28 Jul 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

The animated graphical abstract in a PCCP paper has attracted attention online this week and has been referenced in a Nature Chemistry editorial on the art of abstracts.

Read the PCCP article or view the ‘dynamic’ graphic below:

Stabilizing carbon-lithium stars
Nancy Perez-Peralta, Maryel Contreras, William Tiznado, John Stewart, Kelling J. Donald and Gabriel Merino
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21061K

Stabilizing carbon-lithium stars

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Nanostructures in Ionic Liquids themed issue

27 Jul 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

PCCP is delighted to present issue 30 which contains a collection of papers on the theme of Nanostructures in Ionic Liquids, Guest Edited by Jairton Dupont (UFRGS, Brazil) and Rob Atkin (University of Newcastle, Australia).

The cover image of this issue features the work of Sheng Dai and colleagues on boron and nitrogen-rich carbons with tailorable surface properties (DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20631A).

Highlights in the issue include:

Perspective
Plasma electrochemistry in ionic liquids: an alternative route to generate nanoparticles
Oliver Höfft and Frank Endres
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20501C

Ionic liquids as recycling solvents for the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles
Flavia C. C. Oliveira, Fernando B. Effenberger, Marcelo H. Sousa, Renato F. Jardim, Pedro K. Kiyohara, Jairton Dupont, Joel C. Rubim and Liane M. Rossi
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21518C

Growth of sputter-deposited gold nanoparticles in ionic liquids
Evert Vanecht, Koen Binnemans, Jin Won Seo, Linda Stappers and Jan Fransaer
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20552H

Browse this high-profile themed issue today!

Upcoming RSC Conference in this area:

Ionic Liquids Conference: Faraday Discussion 154
22 – 24 August 2011
Belfast, UK
Last chance to register!

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Call for papers: Hydrogen Bonding in Electronically Excited States

27 Jul 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

PCCP themed issue: Hydrogen Bonding in Electronically Excited States
Guest Editors: Guang-Jiu Zhao and Ke-Li Han
(Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China)

PCCP is delighted to announce the high-profile themed issue ‘Hydrogen Bonding in Electronically Excited States’. It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this themed issue.

The themed issue will be published in PCCP in 2012 and will be displayed at relevant international conferences in summer 2012 to maximise the visibility of the work published.

Deadline for Submissions: 05 December 2011

The hydrogen bonding has been recognized as one subject of contemporary research interests due to its prevalence and fundamental importance in various branches of science in the past century. To complement the recently published PCCP themed issue on ‘Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects’, Guest Edited by Wouter Herrebout (University of Antwerp) and Martin Suhm (University of Göttingen, this themed issue will focus on hydrogen bonding in electronically excited states, which are play an increasingly important role in many photo-physical processes and photochemical reactions.

This themed intends to collect the state-of-the-art contributions from a large number of top scientists in the field throughout the world, including the themes;

excited-state hydrogen bonding structure and dynamics in gas phase and condensed phase
influences of excited-state hydrogen bonding on various important photo-physical processes and photochemical reactionsas
applications of excited-state hydrogen bonding in the vital fields such as fluorescent probes, light-driven molecular machines, optoelectronic functional materials and artificial photosynthesis.

Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our online submissions service. Submissions should be high quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research. Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed issue.

Submit to this themed issue

View the PCCP themed issue on ‘Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects’

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Hot article: silica nanospheres with enhanced potential for photodynamic therapy

20 Jul 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

The incorporation of hematoporphyrin IX (Hp IX) in silica nanospheres enhances its potential for photodynamic therapy.

The entrapment of Hp IX in silica by means of a microemulsion resulted in silica spheres of 33 ± 6 nm. The small size, narrow size distribution and lack of aggregation maintain Hp IX silica nanospheres stable in aqueous solutions for long periods and permit a detailed study of the entrapped drug by different techniques.

Read this Hot PCCP article today:

Enhancement of hematoporphyrin IX potential for photodynamic therapy by entrapment in silica nanospheres
Paulo R. Silva, Lucas L. R. Vono, Breno P. Espósito, Maurício S. Baptista and Liane M. Rossi
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21525F

silica nanospheres

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Artificial photosynthesis conference – register before 5 August

20 Jul 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

Artificial Photosynthesis: Faraday Discussion 155
5 – 7 September 2011
Edinburgh, UK

Registration deadline – 05 August 2011

Last chance to register for this exciting conference !

Confirmed speakers

• Graham Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Sir Richard Friend FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
• Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dirk Guldi, University of Erlangen , Germany
• Devens Gust, Arizona State University, USA
• Osamu Ishitani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Tom Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Stefan Matile, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
• Stenbjörn Styring, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

There is a growing conviction that the only real prospect for our long-term energy provision relies on the ability to collect and store sunlight in the form of chemical potential. The need for alternative fuels and reduction of excess carbon dioxide left over from our era of fossil fuel consumption, focuses the attention on the design of effective artificial photosynthetic systems. This is a growing global problem and it will soon become the dominant scientific issue.

Applying new knowledge to old problems: FD155 will focus on possible solutions to long-standing problems in the development of artificial synthesis. This topical and important area of science covers many disciplines. The combination of biology, chemistry, physics and theory makes for an exciting blend of discussion points.

Themes

• Electronic energy transfer
• Fuel production / carbon dioxide reduction
• Oxygen evolution
• Integrated photo-systems
• Electron transfer

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Hot Communication: relativity in your battery

14 Jul 2011

By Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki have investigated how relativity can influence the chemical properties of batteries.

Following on from their previous work on the common lead-acid battery, they have now looked into how relativity effects the once common mercury battery. The key result is that 29% (+0.38 V) of the calculated voltage of the mercury battery’s electromotoric force (EMF) arise from relativistic effects.

Read more:

Relativity and the mercury battery
Patryk Zaleski-Ejgierd and Pekka Pyykkö
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21738K

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Hydrogen Storage Materials: Faraday Discussions 151 published online

PCCP Poster Prize at Free Radicals Symposium

Themed issue: Weak Hydrogen Bonds – Strong Effects?

PCCP Poster Prize at CASE 2011

PCCP animated graphical abstract attracts attention!

Nanostructures in Ionic Liquids themed issue

Call for papers: Hydrogen Bonding in Electronically Excited States

Hot article: silica nanospheres with enhanced potential for photodynamic therapy

Artificial photosynthesis conference – register before 5 August

Hot Communication: relativity in your battery

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