Faraday Discussions Blog

We are delighted to share with you a selection of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on hot-electron science and microscopic processes in plasmonics and catalysis.

We very much hope you enjoy reading the articles and that you will join us to present your own research poster to leading scientists including Jeremy Baumberg, Naomi Halas, Javier Aizpurua, Alexandra Boltasseva and many more.
Submit a poster abstract by 10 December

Read this selection of Accepted Manuscripts which will be presented in London:

Direct optical excitation of dark plasmons for hot electron generation
Niclas A Müller, Bruno G. M. Vieira, Dominik Höing, Florian Schulz, Eduardo Bedê Barros, Holger Lange and stephanie Reich

Enhanced hot electron generation by inverse metal–oxide interfaces on catalytic nanodiode
Hyosun Lee, Sinmyung Yoon, Jinwoung Jo, Beomjoon Jeon, Taeghwan Hyeon, Kwangjin An and Jeong Y. Park

The role of a plasmonic substrate on the enhancement and spatial resolution of tip-enhanced Raman scattering
Mahfujur Rahaman, Alexander G. Milekhin, Ashutosh Mukherjee, E E Rodyakina, Alexander Latyshev, Volodymyr Dzhagan and Dietrich RT Zahn

Assistance of metal nanoparticles to photo-catalysis – nothing more than a classical heat source
Yonatan Sivan, Ieng Wai Un and Yoni Dubi

Out-of-equilibrium electron dynamics of silver driven by ultrafast electromagnetic fields – a novel hydrodynamical approach
Andrea Marini, Alessandro Ciattoni and Claudio Conti

Electron-induced molecular dissociation at a surface leads to reactive collisions at selected impact parameters
John C Polanyi, Kelvin Anggara, Lydie Leung, Matthew J Timm and Hu Zhixin

Generation of hot electrons in nanostructures incorporating conventional and unconventional plasmonic materials
Tianji Liu, Lucas V. Besteiro, Zhiming Wang and Alexander O. Govorov

Impact of chemical interface damping on surface plasmon dephasing
Andrew J. Therrien, Matthew J. Kale, Lin Yuan, Chao Zhang, Naomi J Halas and Phillip Christopher

Monitoring plasmonic hot-carrier chemical reactions at the single particle level
Sabrina Simoncelli, Evangelina Pensa, Thomas Brick, Julian Gargiulo, Alberto Lauri, Javier Cambiasso, Yi Li, Stefan A. Maier and Emiliano Cortes

Quantum effects in small molecular systems
10 – 12 September 2018, Edinburgh, UK

Register by 20 August to secure your place and join the discussion

With something to appeal to researchers working on both isolated and confined molecular systems, we’ll be discussing some fundamental physical chemistry. Nonetheless the impacts are tangible in atmospheric chemistry, biology, physics, and astrophysics and astrochemistry.

We look forward to hearing from world leading researchers including:

• Sir David Clary (University of Oxford)
• Ad van der Avoird (Radboud University Nijmegen)
• Joel Bowman (Emory University)
• Steve Bradforth (University of Southern California)
• Stephen R. Leone (University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab)
• Anne B. McCoy (University of Washington)
• Petr Slavíček (University of Chemistry and Technology Prague)
• Thierry Stoecklin (Université de Bordeaux)
• Anne Zehnacker-Rentien (Université Paris Sud)

Don’t forget that every delegate has the opportunity to participate, with a record of the comments and discussions in the associated volume of Faraday Discussions.

Save the date: Quantum effects in complex systems
1 – 13 September 2019, Coventry, UK

With the rapid rate of development and broad application domains, the principal aim of this Faraday Discussion is to provide a snapshot of the current theoretical and experimental state-of-the-art in methods designed to interrogate and rationalize the role of quantum-mechanical effects in complex systems; simultaneously, this meeting will act as a new forum to discuss ideas which span the experimental/theoretical domains.

Submit an oral/paper abstract by 19 December 2018 if you wish to be considered for an oral presentation and associated published paper (submission opening soon).

For more information about the unique format of Faraday Discussions check out our FAQs page.

It’s tricky to analyse mixtures that don’t easily separate into their constituent parts. But it’s important to do so to look at pollutants in soil, the components of food or biological metabolites.

So we’re bringing together experts from across a range of specialities to discuss this fascinating field. From chromatographers to spectroscopists and those whose focus is on a particular biological metabolite or environmental mixture, researchers from around the world will be in Edinburgh next May to discuss Challenges in analysis of complex natural mixtures.

Topics for discussion include the latest mass spectrometry and chromatography techniques, high-resolution techniques, data mining and visualisation, and chemometrics.

So how can you get involved?

Submit an oral abstract by 27 August for a chance to join
– Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz Zentrum München/Technical University Munich)
– Chris Reddy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
– Lutgarde Buydens (Radboud University)
– André J. Simpson (University of Toronto)
– Dan Stærk (University of Copenhagen)
and many more!

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 Carbon Capture and Storage.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Berend Smit (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
• Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London, UK)
• Zhenshan Li (Tsinghua University, China)
• Raffaella Ocone (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
• Gary Rochelle (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• and many more

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Submit your poster abstract by 9 May 2016 and get involved

Registration is now open – register by 30 May 2016 to receive a discount

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Papers presented at the meeting in Sheffield will include:

Pilot Plant Test of the Advanced Flash Stripper for CO2 Capture
Yu-Jeng Lin, Eric Chen and Gary Rochelle
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00029K 

Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture Cost Reduction to 2030 and beyond
Bruce Adderley, Jeremy Carey, Jon Gibbins, Mathieu Lucquiaud and Richard Smith
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00046K

The development of effective CaO-based CO2 sorbents via a sacrificial templating technique
Andac Armutlulu, Muhammad Awais Naeem, Marcin Broda, Dmitry Lebedev and Christoph Rüdiger Müller
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00042H

Effect of SO2 and steam on CO2 capture performance of biomass-templated calcium aluminate pellets
Maria Erans, Theodor Beisheim, Vasilije Manovic, Michal Jeremias, Kumar Patchigolla, Heiko Dieter, Lunbo Duan and Edward Anthony
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00027D

Phase Evolution, Characterization, and Performance of Cement Prepared in an Oxy-fuel Atmosphere
Liya Zheng, Thomas Hills and Paul Fennell
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00032K

Rate Equation Theory for Pore Size Distribution of Calcined CaCO3 in Calcium Looping
Zhenshan Li, Peiting Liang and Ningsheng Cai
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00019C

On the potential of phase-change adsorbents for CO₂ capture by temperature swing adsorption
Max Hefti, Lisa Joss, Zoran Bjelobrk and Marco Mazzotti
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00040A

In situ studies of materials for high temperature CO2 capture and storage
Matthew T Dunstan, Serena A. Maugeri, Wen Liu, Matthew G. Tucker, Oluwadamilola O Taiwo, Belen Gonzalez, Phoebe Allan, Michael W Gaultois, Paul Shearing, David A. Keen, Anthony Phillips, Martin Dove, Stuart Scott, John Dennis and Clare P. Grey
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00047A

Cutting the cost of carbon capture: a case for carbon capture & utilization
Lennart Joos, Johanna Maria Huck, Veronique Van Speybroeck and Berend Smit
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00031B

Absorber Modeling for NGCC Carbon Capture with Aqueous Piperazine
Yue Zhang, Brice Freeman and Gary Rochelle
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00030D

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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 Nanoparticles with Morphological and Functional Anisotropy.

Confirmed Speakers include:

• Catherine J. Murphy (University of Illinois, USA)
• Younan Xia (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Bernie Binks (University of Hull, UK)
• Steve Granick (IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, South Korea)
• Clement Sanchez (College de France, UPMC, CNRS, France)
• And many more

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Submit your poster abstract by 25 April 2016 and get involved

Registration is now open – register by 16 May 2016 to receive a discount

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Papers presented at the meeting in London will include:

Anisotropic nanoparticles

Template-Assisted Colloidal Self-Assembly of Macroscopic Magnetic Metasurfaces
Martin Mayer, Moritz Tebbe, Christian Kuttner, Max J Schnepf, Tobias A.F. Koenig and Andreas Fery
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00013D
Open Access

Gold Nanorod Synthesis Catalysed by Au Clusters
Yasser Attia Attia, Carlos Vazquez-Vazquez, María del Carmen Blanco-Varela, David Buceta and M. Arturo Lopez-Quintela
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00015K

Gold nanotriangles decorated with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles
Jordan A Hachtel, Siming Yu, Andrew R Lupini, Sokrates T Pantelides, Marti Gich, Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00028B

Janus and patchy particles

Self-folding Nanostructures with Imprint Patterned Surfaces (SNIPS)
Hye Rin Kwag, Jeong-Hyun Cho, Si-Young Park, Jaehyun Park and David Gracias
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00021E

Amphiphilic brush polymers produced by the RAFT polymerisation method stabilise and reduce the cell cytotoxicity of lipid lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles
Jiali Zhai, Randy Suryadinata, Bao Luan, Nhiem Tran, Tracey Hinton, Julian Ratcliffe, Xiaojuan Hao and Calum J Drummond  DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00039H

Routes to the preparation of mixed monolayers of fluorinated and hydrogenated alkanethiolates grafted on the surface of gold nanoparticles
Lucia Pasquato, Maria Sologan, Cristina Cantarutti, Silvia Bidoggia, S Polizzi and Paolo Pengo
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00016A

A Multi-coordinating Polymer Ligand Optimized for the Functionalization of Metallic Nanocrystals and Nanorods
Wentao Wang, Xin Ji, Hunter Burns and Hedi Mattoussi
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00056H

Particles at interfaces

Anisotropic surface functionalization of Au nanorods driven by molecular architecture and curvature effects
Estefania Gonzalez Solveyra, Mario Tagliazucchi and Igal Szleifer
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00020G

Programmed Assembly of Oppositely Charged Homogeneously Decorated and Janus Particles
Alina Kirillova, Georgi Stoychev and Alla Synytska
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00008H

Synthesis of Janus plasmonic-magnetic, star-sphere nanoparticles, and their application in SERS detection
Javier Reguera, Dorleta Jiménez de Aberasturi, Naomi Winckelmans, Judith Langer, Sara Bals and Luis M. Liz-Marzan
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00012F

Organic-inorganic patchy particles as a versatile platform for foam and emulsion stabilization
Elena Blanco, Stoyan Smoukov, Orlin Velev and Krassimir Petkov Velikov
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00036C

Biomedical applications

Anisotropic Lanthanide-based Nano-clusters for Imaging Applications
Richard A Jones, Xiaoping Yang, Shiqing Wang, Tyler King, Christopher James Kerr, Clement Blanchet, Dmitri Svergun, Robert Pal, A Beeby, Katherine A Brown, Lijie Zhang and Shaoming Huang
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00018E

Numerical analysis of Pickering emulsion stability: insights from ABMD simulations
Francois Sicard and Alberto Striolo
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00055J

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We hope you will be able to join us for the Faraday Discussions meeting on Aggregation Induced Emission taking place in Guangzhou, China from 18–20 November 2016, which will cover the following themes:

• New and efficient fluorescent and phosphorescent luminogens
• Advanced functional luminogens in the solid-state
• Biomedical applications of luminogens
• Optoelectronic devices from highly efficient luminogens in the solid state

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 29 February 2016.

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Submit your abstract by 29 February 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:

Specific light-up bioprobes based on AIEgen conjugates
Jing Liang, Ben Zhong Tang and Bin Liu
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 2798–2811
Open Access

Phosphorescence within benzotellurophenes and color tunable tellurophenes under ambient conditions
Gang He, Benjamin D. Wiltshire, Paul Choi, Aliaksandr Savin, Shuai Sun, Arash Mohammadpour, Michael J. Ferguson, Robert McDonald, Samira Farsinezhad, Alex Brown, Karthik Shankar and Eric Rivard
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 5444–5447

Very bright mechanoluminescence and remarkable mechanochromism using a tetraphenylethene derivative with aggregation-induced emission
Bingjia Xu, Jiajun He, Yingxiao Mu, Qiangzhong Zhu, Sikai Wu, Yifan Wang, Yi Zhang, Chongjun Jin, Changcheng Lo, Zhenguo Chi, Alan Lien, Siwei Liu and Jiarui Xu
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 3236-3241
Open Access

Mechanochromic luminescence and aggregation induced emission for a metal-free β-diketone
Tristan Butler, William A. Morris, Jelena Samonina-Kosicka and Cassandra L. Fraser
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 3359-3362

Circularly polarized luminescence of AIE-active chiral O-BODIPYs induced via intramolecular energy transfer
Shuwei Zhang, Yuxiang Wang, Fandian Meng, Chunhui Dai, Yixiang Cheng and Chengjian Zhu
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 9014-9017

Aggregation-induced emission of siloles
Zujin Zhao, Bairong He and Ben Zhong Tang
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5347–5365
Open Access

Aggregation induced blue-shifted emission – the molecular picture from a QM/MM study
Qunyan Wu, Tian Zhang, Qian Peng, Dong Wang and Zhigang Shuai
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 5545-5552

Supramolecular assembly-induced yellow emission of 9,10-distyrylanthracene bridged bis(pillar[5]arene)s
Nan Song, Dai-Xiong Chen, Meng-Chan Xia, Xi-Long Qiu, Ke Ma, Bin Xu, Wenjing Tian and Ying-Wei Yang
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 5526-5529

Functional hyperbranched polymers with advanced optical, electrical and magnetic properties
Wenbo Wu, Runli Tang, Qianqian Li and Zhen Li
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 3997-4022

Efficient light harvesting of a luminescent solar concentrator using excitation energy transfer from an aggregation-induced emitter
James L. Banal, Kenneth P. Ghiggino and Wallace W. H. Wong
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 25358-25363

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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 Liquid Salts for Energy and Materials.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Derek Fray (University of Cambridge, UK)
• John Irvine (St Andrews University, UK)
• Dihua Wang (Wuhan University, China)
• Jenny Pringle (Deakin University, Australia)
• Hongmin Zhu (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
• And many more

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The poster abstract deadline is now 14 March

There’s still time to submit your poster abstract

Registration is now open – register by 21 March 2016 to receive a discount

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Papers presented at the meeting in Ningbo will include:

Coordination numbers and physical properties in molten salts and their mixtures
Paul Anthony Madden, Mathieu Salanne and Dario Corradini
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00223K

Direct Oxygen Removal Technique for Recycling Titanium and Its Alloys by Utilizing MgCl2 Molten Salt
Toru Okabe, Yuki Hamanaka and Yu-ki Taninouchi
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00229J

Three dimensional ink-jet printing of biomaterials using ionic liquids and co-solvents
Deshani H. A. T. Gunasekera, SzeLee Kuek, Denis Hasanaj, Yinfeng He, Christopher Tuck, Anna Croft and Ricky D. Wildman
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00219B

Formation of Si Nanowires by the Electrochemical Reduction of SiO2 with Ni or NiO Additives
Sheng Fang, Han Wang, Juanyu Yang, Shigang Lu and Bing Yu
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00222B

Molten-salt treatment of waste biomass for preparation of carbon with enhanced capacitive properties and electrocatalytic activity towards oxygen reduction
Wei Xiao, Beihu Lu, Jing Zhou, Hailong Wang, Yuqiao Song and Dihua Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00215J

Natural Gas Anodes for Aluminium Electrolysis in Molten Fluorides
Geir Martin Haarberg, Babak Khalaghi and Tommy Mokkelbost
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00239G

Developing Energy Efficient Lignin Biomass Processing – Towards Understanding Mediator Behaviour in Ionic Liquids
Eshtaya Majd, Andinet Ejigu, Gill Stephens, Darren Walsh, George Z. Chen and Anna Croft
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00226E

Electrolysis of Metal Oxides in MgCl2 based molten salts with an inert graphite anode
Yating Yuan, Wei Li, Hualin Chen, Zhiyong Wang, Xianbo Jin and George Z. Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00231A

Solid oxide membrane-assisted controllable electrolytic fabrication of metal carbides in molten salt
Xingli Zou, Kai Zheng, Xionggang Lu, Qian Xu and Zhong-fu Zhou
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00221D

Estimation of the intermetallic compounds in LiCl-KCl molten salt by cyclic voltammetry
Weiqun Shi, Yalan Liu, Kui Liu, Liyong Yuan and Zhifang Chai
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00220F

Immobilization of rhodium catalyst by using diphosphine-functionalized ionic liquid in RTIL for efficient and recyclable biphasic hydroformylation of 1-octene
Yong-Qi Li, Huan Liu, Peng Wang, Da Yang, Ye Liu and Xiao-li Zhao
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00195A

High energy supercapattery with an ionic liquid solution of LiClO4
Linpo Yu and George Z. Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00232J

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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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