We are delighted to share with you the top 25 most-read 2013-2017 articles for Faraday Discussions in 2017 so far.
Almost all are Open Access, so free to read for everyone. There’s no excuse for not taking a look!
Twenty years of ambient observations of nitrogen oxides and specified hydrocarbons in air masses dominated by traffic emissions in Germany
Yuancheng Wang, Guanxin Zhang, Meng Gao, Yuanjing Cai, Chi Zhan, Zujin Zhao, Deqing Zhang and Ben Zhong Tang
Faraday Discuss., 2017, 196, 9-30
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00218H
Introductory lecture: recent research progress on aggregation-induced emission
Christian Ehlers, Dieter Klemp, Franz Rohrer, Djuro Mihelcic, Robert Wegener, Astrid Kiendler-Scharr and Andreas Wahner
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 189, 407-437
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00180C
Open Access
In situ Raman study of lithium-ion intercalation into microcrystalline graphite
Christopher Sole, Nicholas E. Drewett and Laurence J. Hardwick
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 172, 223-237
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00079J
Open Access
Seed mediated growth of gold nanorods: towards nanorod matryoshkas
Joshua G. Hinman, Andrew J. Stork, Jason A. Varnell, Andrew A. Gewirth and Catherine J. Murphy
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 179, 9-33
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00225C
Open Access
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
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 179, 41-58
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00145A
Direct oxygen removal technique for recycling titanium using molten MgCl2 salt
Toru H. Okabe, Yuki Hamanaka and Yu-ki Taninouchi
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 190, 109-126
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00229J
Open Access
Electrochemical characterisation of graphene nanoflakes with functionalised edges
Mailis M. Lounasvuori, Martin Rosillo-Lopez, Christoph G. Salzmann, Daren J. Caruana and Katherine B. Holt
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 172, 293-310
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00034J
Open Access
Magnetic field-induced self-assembly of iron oxide nanocubes
Gurvinder Singh, Henry Chan, T. Udayabhaskararao, Elijah Gelman, Davide Peddis, Artem Baskin, Gregory Leitus, Petr Král and Rafal Klajn
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 181, 403-421
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00265B
Open Access
The cluster beam route to model catalysts and beyond
Peter R. Ellis, Christopher M. Brown, Peter T. Bishop, Jinlong Yin, Kevin Cooke, William D. Terry, Jian Liu, Feng Yin and Richard E. Palmer
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 188, 39-56
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00178A
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
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 174, 399-411
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00095A
Open Access
Carbon Capture and Storage: introductory lecture
Berend Smit
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 192, 9-25
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00148C
Open Access
Atmospheric aerosols in Amazonia and land use change: from natural biogenic to biomass burning conditions
Paulo Artaxo, Luciana V. Rizzo, Joel F. Brito, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Andrea Arana, Elisa T. Sena, Glauber G. Cirino, Wanderlei Bastos, Scot T. Martin and Meinrat O. Andreae
Faraday Discuss., 2013, 165, 203-235
DOI: 10.1039/C3FD00052D
Open Access
Introductory Lecture: Mechanochemistry, a versatile synthesis strategy for new materials
William Jones and Mark D. Eddleston
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 170, 9-34
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00162A
Ab initio modeling of the bonding of benzotriazole corrosion inhibitor to reduced and oxidized copper surfaces
Anton Kokalj
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 180, 415-438
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00257A
Open Access
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
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 178, 281-294
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00197D
Open Access
Investigation of intervertebral disc degeneration using multivariate FTIR spectroscopic imaging
Kerstin T. Mader, Mirte Peeters, Suzanne E. L. Detiger, Marco N. Helder, Theo H. Smit, Christine L. Le Maitre and Chris Sammon
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 187, 393-414
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00160A
Open Access
Triboelectric nanogenerators as new energy technology and self-powered sensors – Principles, problems and perspectives
Zhong Lin Wang
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 176, 447-458
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00159A
Directing the orientational alignment of anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles using dynamic magnetic fields
Daniel Hoffelner, Matthias Kundt, Annette M. Schmidt, Emmanuel Kentzinger, Philipp Bender and Sabrina Disch
Faraday Discuss., 2015, 181, 449-461
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00242C
Open Access
Rapid decomposition and visualisation of protein–ligand binding free energies by residue and by water
Christopher J. Woods, Maturos Malaisree, Julien Michel, Ben Long, Simon McIntosh-Smith and Adrian J. Mulholland
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 169, 477-499
DOI: 10.1039/C3FD00125C
Open Access
Label-free classification of colon cancer grading using infrared spectral histopathology
C. Kuepper, F. Großerueschkamp, A. Kallenbach-Thieltges, A. Mosig, A. Tannapfel and K. Gerwert
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 187, 105-118
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00157A
Open Access
Density based visualization for molecular simulation
Dmitri Rozmanov, Svetlana Baoukina and D. Peter Tieleman
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 169, 225-243
DOI: 10.1039/C3FD00124E
Open Access
The curious case of zeolite–clay/binder interactions and their consequences for catalyst preparation
Gareth T. Whiting, Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury, Ramon Oord, Pasi Paalanen and Bert M. Weckhuysen
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 188, 369-386
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00200A
Open Access
The development of a new generation of methyl chloride synthesis catalyst
Alastair R. McInroy, John M. Winfield, Chris C. Dudman, Peter Jones and David Lennon
Faraday Discuss., 2016, 188, 467-479
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00202H
Open Access
Self-association of organic solutes in solution: a NEXAFS study of aqueous imidazole
Yixin Zhao, Alexandre M. Nardes and Kai Zhu
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 176, 301-312
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00005J
Enhanced oxygen evolution activity by NiOx and Ni(OH)2 nanoparticles
Lucas-Alexandre Stern and Xile Hu
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 176, 363-379
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00120F
Open Access
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