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05 Dec 2011

Tribology: Faraday Discussion 156
2 – 4 April 2012
University of Southampton, UK

We know a very busy festive season is coming up shortly so this is a gentle reminder that you haven’t taken any action yet about attending Tribology : FD156.

Poster abstract and bursary applications are now invited, and registration is open.

Chemists, physicists, theoreticians, engineers and biomedical researchers will all benefit from joining this forum for exploring advances in all the diverse aspects of experimental techniques which bear directly on the topic of tribology.

To keep up with the way tribology directly affects our lives you need to be part of our wide-ranging discussion. So please don’t miss out – act now before the end of year rush.

P.S. Don’t forget that registering early lets you make savings!

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Ionic Liquids: Faraday Discussion 154 now published!

05 Dec 2011

Faraday Discussion 154: Ionic Liquids has now been published online.

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

Thermodynamics and phase behavior of ionic fluids
Microscopic and mesoscopic structure: experiments and simulations
Transport and relaxation in ionic liquids
Chemical reactivity and interfacial behavior

In the volume you can find all the papers and exciting discussion from the conference held in Belfast, UK, in August. These are just some of the highlights:

Ionic Liquids: Past, present and future
C. Austen Angell, Younes Ansari and Zuofeng Zhao
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00112D

Electron solvation dynamics and reactivity in ionic liquids observed by picosecond radiolysis techniques
James F. Wishart, Alison M. Funston, Tomasz Szreder, Andrew R. Cook and Masao Gohdo
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00065A

Adsorption, absorption and desorption of gases at liquid surfaces: water on [C₈C₁Im][BF₄] and [C₂C₁Im][Tf₂N]
Alexey Deyko and Robert G. Jones
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00062D

Using ethane and butane as probes to the molecular structure of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide ionic liquids
Margarida F. Costa Gomes, Laure Pison, Alfonso S. Pensado and Agilio A. H. Pádua
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00074H

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

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Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects: FD160 – last chance to submit an oral abstract!

10 Nov 2011

Join a Faraday Discussion which will explore the most important issues in understanding the chemistry and biological effects of ions: Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects: FD160.

There’s still time to submit your oral abstract for presentation – but don’t delay!

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Insights into the interface between water and ionic liquids

03 Nov 2011

HOT article from FD154: Ionic Liquids

This article by Deyko and Jones describes in detail the interaction of water at the surface of two ionic liquids. The authors found that the ILs were arranged so they had a hydrophobic surface layer. Water was able to absorb into the ILs at room temperature but no absorption into the frozen ILs was observed.

Read the full HOT Faraday Discussion article today:

Adsorption, absorption and desorption of gases at liquid surfaces: water on [C₈C₁Im][BF₄] and [C₂C₁Im][Tf₂N]
Alexey Deyko and Robert G. Jones
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00062D

Deyko and Jones' experimental setup.

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Radiolysis in ionic liquids reveals new insights

02 Nov 2011

HOT article from FD154: Ionic Liquids

Wishart and coworkers describe their studies of the effect of radiolysis in ionic liquids. They found slight differences in the behaviour of duroquinone in ILs compared to in conventional solvents and suggest that their insights may have potential applications in controlling photodegradation of solar cells and batteries as well as in dealing with spent nuclear fuel.

Read the full HOT Faraday Discussion article today:

Electron solvation dynamics and reactivity in ionic liquids observed by picosecond radiolysis techniques
James F. Wishart, Alison M. Funston, Tomasz Szreder, Andrew R. Cook and Masao Gohdo
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00065A

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Coherence and Control in Chemistry: Faraday Discussions Volume 153 now published

01 Nov 2011

Faraday Discussion 153: Coherence and Control in Chemistry has now been published online.

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

Electronic coherence in biological supramolecular assemblies.
Non-adiabatic interactions and molecular coherent control.
Strategies for coherent control.
Applications of coherent control.
Strong-field high harmonic generation and alignment control

In the volume you can find all of the papers and fascinating discussion from the conference, which was held in Leeds, UK, in July.

A recommendation from the Chair:

Professor Ben Whitaker (University of Leeds, UK), Chair of Faraday Discussion 153, particularly recommends General Discussion section C because:

“A longstanding result is that coherent control over relative product cross-sections using one-photon excitation should not be possible… However, recent experiments (some of which are presented in this Discussion volume) using phase modulation of weak-field (single photon) excitation demonstrably result in control. The contradiction with previously held belief and its resolution is debated by experts in the field in the General Discussion of this volume.”

To read the discussion about weak/one photon control, click here.

Highlights from the volume include:

Extracting dynamics of excitonic coherences in congested spectra of photosynthetic light harvesting antenna complexes
Justin R. Caram and Gregory S. Engel
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 93-104

Coherent control of vibrational transitions: Discriminating molecules in mixtures
A. C. W. van Rhijn, A. Jafarpour, M. Jurna, H. L. Offerhaus and J. L. Herek
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 227-235

Coherently-controlled two-dimensional spectroscopy: Evidence for phase induced long-lived memory effects
Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Alexei Halpin and R. J. Dwayne Miller
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 27-39

Coherent control of single molecules at room temperature
Daan Brinks, Richard Hildner, Fernando D. Stefani and Niek F. van Hulst
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 51-60

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

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Probing the Solvation Properties of Ionic Liquids

01 Nov 2011

HOT article from FD154!

The recent Faraday Discussion 154 on Ionic Liquids took place at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Margarida Costa Gomes presented her group’s work on the solubility and thermodynamics of solvation of ethane and n-butane in various ionic liquids. The authors found that the alkanes were more soluble in ILs with longer alkyl chains and observed preferential solvation in the non-polar part of the ILs.

Read the full HOT Faraday Discussion article today:

Using ethane and butane as probes to the molecular structure of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide ionic liquids
Margarida F. Costa Gomes, Laure Pison, Alfonso S. Pensado and Agilio A. H. Pádua
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00074H

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Gold: Faraday Discussion 152 now published!

20 Oct 2011

Faraday Discussion 152: Gold has now been published online.

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

Gold catalysis at the gas solid interface
Gold catalysis and materials science
Theoretical insights on gold catalysis
Gold catalysis and enhanced selectivity

In the volume you can find all the papers and exciting discussion from the conference held in Cardiff, UK, in July. These are just some of the highlights:

Role of perimeter interfaces in catalysis by gold nanoparticles
Masatake Haruta
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00107H

A periodic DFT study of the activation of O₂ by Au nanoparticles on α-Fe₂O₃
Kara L. Howard and David J. Willock
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00026H

A paradigm for predicting selective oxidation on noble metals: oxidative catalytic coupling of amines and aldehydes on metallic gold
Bingjun Xu, Cynthia M. Friend and Robert J. Madix
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00012H

Oxidative coupling of alcohols on gold: Insights from experiments and theory
Bingjun Xu and Cynthia M. Friend
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00015B

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

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Call for abstracts: Lipid and Membrane Biophysics

20 Oct 2011

Lipid and Membrane Biophysics
Faraday Discussion 161
11 – 13 September 2012
Burlington House, London, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 18 November 2011

Submit now

Lipid and Membrane Biophysics: Faraday Discussion 161 will consider recent developments in the study of biomembrane structure, ordering and dynamics, with particular emphasis on the roles of lipids in these phenomena. This meeting will focus on the following themes:

• Lipid self-assembly
• Structure, ordering and dynamics of membranes
• Lateral segregation, trans-bilayer coupling and microdomains
• Membrane curvature, micromechanics and fusion
• Lipid-protein interactions: two-way coupling
• Interactions of signalling lipids and other molecules with membranes
• Biomedical and technological applications of lipid membranes

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Professor John Nagle (Introductory), Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Professor Evan Evans (Closing), Boston University, USA
• Dr Olaf Sparre Andersen, Cornell University, USA
• Professor Alfred Blume, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• Professor Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Professor Dr Reinhard Lipowsky, MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
• Professor David Needham, Duke University, USA
• Professor Thomas Schmidt, Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands
• Professor Dr Petra Schwille, TU Dresden, Germany
• Professor Håkan Wennerström, University of Lund, Sweden

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 18 November 2011.

We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year. For further information on attending Faraday Discussion 161, please visit www.rsc.org/FD161.

Please keep Faraday Discussions’ sister journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in mind. PCCP brings you content of the highest quality in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. With high-impact research, and a truly international readership, PCCP is the ideal place to publish. We invite you to submit your research to PCCP today.

Recent PCCP Perspective review articles in this area include:

Lipidology and lipidomics––quo vadis? A new era for the physical chemistry of lipids
Ole G. Mouritsen
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22484K

Porous biomimetic membranes: fabrication, properties and future applications
Bin Zhu, Jingjian Li and Dongsheng Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02757J

Functional liposomes and supported lipid bilayers: towards the complexity of biological archetypes
Debora Berti, Gabriella Caminati and Piero Baglioni
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02400G

Multiscale modeling of emergent materials: biological and soft matter
Teemu Murtola, Alex Bunker, Ilpo Vattulainen, Markus Deserno and Mikko Karttunen
DOI: 10.1039/B818051B

Scoring functions and their evaluation methods for protein–ligand docking: recent advances and future directions
Sheng-You Huang, Sam Z. Grinter and Xiaoqin Zou
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00151A

We would like to thank the British Biophysical Society for their co-sponsorship support of this discussion meeting.

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Call for abstracts: Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects

19 Oct 2011

Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects
Faraday Discussion 160
3 – 5 September 2012
Queens’ College Oxford, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 11 November 2011

Submit now

Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects: FD160 aims to respond to the emerging situation in which science has matured enough to be able to provide answers about the molecular nature of ion specific effects. The meeting will address the following themes:

• Solvation of ions in the aqueous bulk and at interfaces
• Ion-ion interactions in water
• Interactions between ions and biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, membranes, etc.) in water
• Specific Hofmeister effects of ions and osmolytes on protein association, precipitation, folding/unfolding, and activity

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Professor Thomas Record (Introductory), University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
• Professor Robert Baldwin (Closing), Stanford University, USA
• Professor Colin Bain, University of Durham, UK
• Professor Chris Dempsey, University of Bristol, UK
• Professor Angel Garcia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Professor Daniel Harries, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
• Professor Werner Kunz, University of Regensburg, Germany
• Professor Mikael Lund, Lund University, Sweden
• Dr Phil Mason, Cornell University, USA
• Professor Douglas Tobias, University of California, Irvine, USA

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 11 November 2011

We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year. For further information on attending Faraday Discussion 160, please visit www.rsc.org/FD160.