Archive for December, 2015

Designing New Heterogeneous Catalysts – submit a poster

We are delighted to share with you a few of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on the theme of Designing New Heterogeneous Catalysts.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Avelino Corma (Instituto de Tecnología Química)
  • Bruce Gates (University of California, Davis)
  • Nora de Leeuw (Cardiff University)
  • Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University)
  • Cynthia Friend (Harvard University)
  • And many more

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Submit your poster abstract by 25 January 2016 and get involved

Registration is now open – register by 15 February 2016 to receive a discount

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Papers presented at the meeting in London will include:

Methanol formation from CO2 Catalyzed by Fe3S4{111}: Formate versus Hydrocarboxyl Pathways
Alberto Roldan and Nora Henriette de Leeuw
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00186B
Open Access

Designing for Selectivity: Weak interactions and the competition for reactive sites on gold catalysts
Cassandra Siler, Robert James Madix and Cynthia Friend
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00192G

Supports and Modified Nano-particles in Designing Model Catalysts
Casey O’Brien, Karl-Heinz Dostert, Michael Hollerer, Christian Stiehler, Florencia Calaza, Swetlana Schauermann, Shamil Shaikhutdinov, Martin Sterrer and Hans-Joachim Freund
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00143A

Using degrees of rate control to improve selective n-butane oxidation over model MOF-encapsulated catalysts: sterically-constrained Ag3Pd(111)
Sean T Dix, Joseph K. Scott, Rachel Getman and Charles T. Campbell
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00198F

Acetylene hydrogenation over structured Au-Pd catalysts
James A. Anderson, Alan J McCue and Richard Baker
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00188A

Active site densities, oxygen activation and adsorbed reactive oxygen in alcohol activation on npAu catalysts
Lu-Cun Wang, Cynthia Friend and Robert James Madix
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00161G, Paper

The Curious Case of Zeolite-Clay/Binder Interactions and Their Consequences for Catalyst Preparation
Gareth T Whiting, Abhishek Chowdhury, Ramon Oord, Pasi Paalanen and Bert Weckhuysen
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00200A

Hydrothermal synthesis of bi-functional nanostructured manganese tungstate catalysts for selective oxidation
Xuan Li, Thomas Lunkenbein, Jutta Kröhnert, Verena Pfeifer, Frank Girgsdies, Frank Rosowski, Robert
Schlögl and Annette Trunschke
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00191A

Design and Stabilisation of a High Area Iron Molybdate Surface for the Selective Oxidation of Methanol to Formaldehyde
Stephanie Chapman, Catherine Brookes, M Bowker, Emma Gibson and Peter Philip Wells
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00153F

Selective Hydrogenation of Halogenated Arenes using porous Manganese Oxide (OMS-2) and Platinum supported OMS-2 Catalysts
Iain McManus, H Daly, H Manyar, Rebecca Taylor, Jillian M. Thompson and Chris Hardacre
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00227C

The Development Of A New Generation Of Methyl Chloride Synthesis Catalyst
David Lennon, Alastair McInroy, John Winfield, Christopher Dudman and Peter Jones
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00202H

Ammonia decomposition catalysis using lithium-calcium imide
Joshua W. Makepeace, Hazel M. A. Hunter, Thomas J. Wood, Ronald I. Smith, Claire A. Murray and
William I. F. David
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00179J

A transition metal oxofluoride offering advantages in electrocatalysis and potential use in applications
Henrik Svengren, Natallia Torapava, Ioannis Athanassiadis, Imran Sk Ali and Mats Johnsson
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00169B

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Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy for Biomedical Applications – submit a poster

We are delighted to share with you a few of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on the theme of Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy for Biomedical Applications.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Max Diem (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Wolfgang Petrich (Roche Diagnostics and Heidelberg University, Germany)
  • Fiona Lyng (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
  • Achim Kohler (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)
  • Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde, UK)
  • And many more

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Submit your poster abstract by 11 January 2016 and get involved

Registration is now open – register by 1 February 2016 to receive a discount

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Papers presented at the meeting in Cambridge will include:

Biofluid infrared spectro-diagnostics: pre-analytical considerations for clinical applications.
Lila Lovergne, Pascaline Bouzy, Valérie Untereiner, Roselyne Garnotel, Matthew J Baker, Gérard Thiéfin and Ganesh D Sockalingum
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00184F

Fiber-optic Raman spectroscopy for in vivo diagnosis of gastric dysplasia
Jianfeng Wang, Kan Lin, Wei Zheng, KY Ho, M Teh, KG Yeoh and Zhiwei Huang
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00151J

Mie scatter corrections in single cell infrared microspectroscopy
Tatiana Konevskikh, Rozalia Lukacs, Reinhold Blümel, Arkadi Ponossov and Achim Kohler
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00171D

Label-free classification of colon cancer grading using infrared spectral histopathology
Claus Kuepper, Frederik Großerüschkamp, Angela Kallenbach-Thieltges, Axel Mosig, Andrea Tannapfel and Klaus Gerwert
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00157A

Vibrational spectroscopy in sensing radiobiological effects: analyses of targeted and non-targeted effects in human keratinocytes
Aidan D Meade, Orla Howe, Valérie Untereiner, Ganesh D Sockalingum, Hugh Byrne and Fiona Lyng
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00208G

InfraRed Imaging of Small Molecules in Living Cells: from In Vitro Metabolic Analysis to Cytopathology
Luca Quaroni, Theodora Zlateva, Katia Wehbe and Gianfelice Cinque
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00156K

New IR Imaging modalities for Cancer detection and for Intra-Cell Chemical mapping with a sub-diffraction mid-IR s-SNOM.
Chris Phillips, Hemmel Amrania, Laurence Drummond, Charles R Coombes, Sami Shousha, Laura N Woodley, Kenny Weir, Will Hart and Ian Carter
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00150A

Advancements in quantum cascade laser-based infrared microscopy of aqueous media
Katharina Haase, Niels Kröger-Lui, Annemarie Pucci, Arthur Schönhals and Wolfgang Petrich
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00177C

Towards quantitative molecular mapping of cells by Raman microscopy: using AFM for decoupling molecular concentration and cell topography
Radu Boitor, Faris Sinjab, Stephanie Strohbuecker, Virginie Sottile and Ioan Notingher
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00172B

Rapid Characterisation of Klebsiella oxytoca Isolates from Contaminated Liquid Hand Soap Using Mass Spectrometry, FTIR and Raman Spectroscopy
Ralf Dieckmann, Jens Andre Hammerl, Hartmut Hahmann , Amal Wicke, Sylvia Kleta, Piotr Wojciech Dabrowski, Andreas Nitsche, Maren Stämmler, Sascha Al Dahouk and Peter Lasch
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00165J

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Single Entity Electrochemistry – oral deadline 14 December

We hope you will be able to join us for the Faraday Discussions meeting on Single Entity Electrochemistry taking place in York, UK from 31 August–2 September, 2016 which will cover the following themes:

  • Nanoscale single entities
  • Nanopores
  • Reactions on surfaces at the nanoscale
  • Molecular microanalysis

The papers presented and a record of the discussions at the meeting will be published in the corresponding volume of Faraday Discussions.

The oral/paper abstract deadline is 14 December 2015.

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Submit your abstract by 14 December to get involved!

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You can find more details on our website about what makes Faraday Discussions different from other meetings.

Check out these recent reviews and original research articles on related topics from a selection of Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

A bidirection-adjustable ionic current rectification system based on a biconical micro-channel
Fengxia Chang, Cheng Chen, Xia Xie, Lisha Chen, Meixian Li and Zhiwei Zhu
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 15316-15319
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC05852J, Communication

Noble metal alloy complex nanostructures: controllable synthesis and their electrochemical property
Hui-ling Liu, Farhat Nosheen and Xun Wang
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015,44, 3056-3078
DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00478G, Review Article

Electrochemical detection of single micelles through ‘nano-impacts’
H. S. Toh and R. G. Compton
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 5053-5058
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01635E, Edge Article
Open Access

Detection of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in DNA via host–guest interactions inside α-hemolysin nanopores
Tao Zeng, Lei Liu, Ting Li, Yuru Li, Juan Gao, Yuliang Zhao and Hai-Chen Wu
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 5628-5634
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01436K, Edge Article
Open Access

Impact of distributions and mixtures on the charge transfer properties of graphene nanoflakes
Hongqing Shi, Robert J. Rees, Manolo C. Per and Amanda S. Barnard
Nanoscale, 2015,7, 1864-1871
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR06123C, Paper

Single-crystalline dendritic bimetallic and multimetallic nanocubes
Yun Kuang, Ying Zhang, Zhao Cai, Guang Feng, Yingying Jiang, Chuanhong Jin, Jun Luo and Xiaoming Sun
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 7122-7129
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01947H, Edge Article
Open Access

Kinetics of CO/CO2 and H2/H2O reactions at Ni-based and ceria-based solid-oxide-cell electrodes
Christopher Graves, Christodoulos Chatzichristodoulou and Mogens B. Mogensen
Faraday Discuss., 2015,182, 75-95
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00048C, Paper
From themed collection Solid Oxide Electrolysis: Fuels and Feedstocks from Water and Air

A microfluidic platform for quantitative measurements of effective protein charges and single ion binding in solution
Therese W. Herling, Paolo Arosio, Thomas Müller, Sara Linse and Tuomas P. J. Knowles
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 12161-12167
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00746A, Paper

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Ultrafast Imaging of Photochemical Dynamics – oral deadline 14 December

We hope you will be able to join us for the Faraday Discussions meeting on Ultrafast Imaging of Photochemical Dynamics taking place in Edinburgh, UK from 31 August–2 September, 2016 which will cover the following themes:

  • Electronic and adiabatic dynamics
  • Attosecond processes and X-ray spectroscopy
  • Structural dynamics
  • Vibrational and condensed phase dynamics

The papers presented and a record of the discussions at the meeting will be published in the corresponding volume of Faraday Discussions.

The oral/paper abstract deadline is 14 December 2015.

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Submit your abstract by 14 December to get involved!

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You can find more details on our website about what makes Faraday Discussions different from other meetings.

Check out these recent reviews and original research articles on related topics from a selection of Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

Single-molecule interfacial electron transfer dynamics of porphyrin on TiO2 nanoparticles: dissecting the interfacial electric field and electron accepting state density dependent dynamics
Vishal Govind Rao, Bharat Dhital and H. Peter Lu
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 16821-16824
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC06451A, Communication

Attosecond imaging
Marc J. J. Vrakking
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014,16, 2775-2789
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53659A, Perspective
From themed collection Imaging molecular dynamics

Comparison of rhenium–porphyrin dyads for CO2 photoreduction: photocatalytic studies and charge separation dynamics studied by time-resolved IR spectroscopy
Christopher D. Windle, Michael W. George, Robin N. Perutz, Peter A. Summers, Xue Zhong Sun and Adrian C. Whitwood
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 6847-6864
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02099A, Edge Article
Open Access

Charge transfer and ultrafast nuclear motions: the complex structural dynamics of an electronically excited triamine
Xinxin Cheng, Yan Gao, Fedor Rudakov and Peter M. Weber
Chem. Sci., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC03042K, Edge Article
Open Access

Ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in supramolecular Pt(II) donor–bridge–acceptor assemblies: the effect of vibronic coupling
Paul A. Scattergood, Milan Delor, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie and Julia A. Weinstein
Faraday Discuss., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00103J, Paper

Watching the dynamics of electrons and atoms at work in solar energy conversion
S. E. Canton, X. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Zhang, M. Pápai, A. Corani, A. L. Smeigh, G. Smolentsev, K. Attenkofer, G. Jennings, C. A. Kurtz, F. Li, T. Harlang, D. Vithanage, P. Chabera, A. Bordage, L. Sun, S. Ott, K. Wärnmark and V. Sundström
Faraday Discuss., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00084J, Paper

Photoinduced dynamics of a cyanine dye: parallel pathways of non-radiative deactivation involving multiple excited-state twisted transients
Srigokul Upadhyayula, Vicente Nuñez, Eli M. Espinoza, Jillian M. Larsen, Duoduo Bao, Dewen Shi, Jenny T. Mac, Bahman Anvari and Valentine I. Vullev
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 2237-2251
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02881C, Edge Article
Open Access

Photophysics of Auramine-O: electronic structure calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations
Bin-Bin Xie, Shu-Hua Xia, Xue-Ping Chang and Ganglong Cui
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP05312A, Paper

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Top 20 most read Faraday Discussions articles

We are delighted to share with you the top 20 most read articles for Faraday Discussions in 2015 so far.

Many are Open Access, so free to read for everyone. Take a look today!

In situ Raman study of lithium-ion intercalation into microcrystalline graphite
Christopher Sole, Nicholas E. Drewett and Laurence J. Hardwick
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00079J
Open Access

Hydrogen evolution on nano-particulate transition metal sulfides
Jacob Bonde, Poul G. Moses, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov and Ib Chorkendorff
DOI: 10.1039/B803857K

Plasmonic and new plasmonic materials: general discussion
F. Javier García de Abajo, Riccardo Sapienza, Mikhail Noginov, Felix Benz, Jeremy Baumberg, Stefan Maier, Duncan Graham, Javier Aizpurua, Thomas Ebbesen, Anatoliy Pinchuk, Jacob Khurgin, Katarzyna Matczyszyn, James T. Hugall, Niek van Hulst, Paul Dawson, Christopher Roberts, Michael Nielsen, Luca Bursi, Michael Flatté, Jun Yi, Ortwin Hess, Nader Engheta, Mark Brongersma, Viktor Podolskiy, Vladimir Shalaev, Evgenii Narimanov and Anatoly Zayats
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD90022K

Systems materials engineering approach for solar-to-chemical conversion
Chong Liu and Peidong Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00264D

Mesoporous perovskite solar cells: material composition, charge-carrier dynamics, and device characteristics
Yixin Zhao, Alexandre M. Nardes and Kai Zhu
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00128A

A classical treatment of optical tunneling in plasmonic gaps: extending the quantum corrected model to practical situations
Rubén Esteban, Asier Zugarramurdi, Pu Zhang, Peter Nordlander, Francisco J. García-Vidal, Andrei G. Borisov and Javier Aizpurua
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00196F

Ultra-strong coupling of molecular materials: spectroscopy and dynamics
Jino George, Shaojun Wang, Thibault Chervy, Antoine Canaguier-Durand, Gael Schaeffer, Jean-Marie Lehn, James A. Hutchison, Cyriaque Genet and Thomas W. Ebbesen
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00197D
Open Access

Introductory lecture: nanoplasmonics
Mark L. Brongersma
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD90020D

Imaging molecular structure through femtosecond photoelectron diffraction on aligned and oriented gas-phase molecules
Rebecca Boll, Arnaud Rouzée, Marcus Adolph, Denis Anielski, Andrew Aquila, Sadia Bari, Cédric Bomme, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Henry N. Chapman, Lauge Christensen, Ryan Coffee, Niccola Coppola, Sankar De, Piero Decleva, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Frank Filsinger, Lutz Foucar, Tais Gorkhover, Lars Gumprecht, André Hömke, Lotte Holmegaard, Per Johnsson, Jens S. Kienitz, Thomas Kierspel, Faton Krasniqi, Kai-Uwe Kühnel, Jochen Maurer, Marc Messerschmidt, Robert Moshammer, Nele L. M. Müller, Benedikt Rudek, Evgeny Savelyev, Ilme Schlichting, Carlo Schmidt, Frank Scholz, Sebastian Schorb, Joachim Schulz, Jörn Seltmann, Mauro Stener, Stephan Stern, Simone Techert, Jan Thøgersen, Sebastian Trippel, Jens Viefhaus, Marc Vrakking, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Jochen Küpper, Joachim Ullrich, Artem Rudenko and Daniel Rolles
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00037D
Open Access

Importance of many-body orientational correlations in the physical description of liquids
Hajime Tanaka
DOI: 10.1039/C3FD00110E
Open Access

Characterization and simulation of electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistors
Katharina Melzer, Marcel Brändlein, Bogdan Popescu, Dan Popescu, Paolo Lugli and Giuseppe Scarpa
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00095A
Open Access

Introductory Lecture: Mechanochemistry, a versatile synthesis strategy for new materials
William Jones and Mark D. Eddleston
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00162A
Open Access

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy: new materials, concepts, characterization tools, and applications
Jon A. Dieringer, Adam D. McFarland, Nilam C. Shah, Douglas A. Stuart, Alyson V. Whitney, Chanda R. Yonzon, Matthew A. Young, Xiaoyu Zhang and Richard P. Van Duyne
DOI: 10.1039/B513431P

Spontaneous tubulation of membranes and vesicles reveals membrane tension generated by spontaneous curvature
Reinhard Lipowsky
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20105D
Open Access

Protein A-conjugated iron oxide nanoparticles for separation of Vibrio cholerae from water samples
Tran Quang Huy, Pham Van Chung, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Cristina Blanco-Andujar and Nguyễn Thị Kim Thanh
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00152D
Open Access

Inkjet printing of graphene
Kirill Arapov, Robert Abbel, Gijsbertus de With and Heiner Friedrich
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00067F

Enhanced oxygen evolution activity by NiOx and Ni(OH)2 nanoparticles
Lucas-Alexandre Stern and Xile Hu
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00120F

Simultaneous frequency and dissipation factor QCM measurements of biomolecular adsorption and cell adhesion
Michael Rodahl, Fredrik Höök, Claes Fredriksson, Craig A. Keller, Anatol Krozer, Peter Brzezinski, Marina Voinova and Bengt Kasemo
DOI: 10.1039/A703137H

On the question of two-step nucleation in protein crystallization
Andrea Sauter, Felix Roosen-Runge, Fajun Zhang, Gudrun Lotze, Artem Feoktystov, Robert M. J. Jacobs and Frank Schreiber
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00225C
Open Access

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