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PCCP Perspective: Tailored heterogenous catalysis using colloidal nanoparticles

Colloidal nanoparticles capped with organic ligands can be used to catalyze reactions in the gas phase. Their various advantages include size and morphology control as well as enhanced stability and protection of the catalyst compared to uncapped nanoparticles.

Sonström and Bäumer describe the state of the art in this exciting research area and give their perspective on its future challenges and opportunities.

Read their PCCP Perspective now:

Supported colloidal nanoparticles in heterogeneous gas phase catalysis: on the way to tailored catalysts
P. Sonström and M. Bäumer
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22048A

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Call for abstracts: Crystallisation – A Biological Perspective

Crystallisation – A Biological Perspective
Faraday Discussion 159
23 – 25 July 2012
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 30 September 2011

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Crystallisation – A Biological Perspective: FD159 aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of biomineralisation, biomimetic crystallisation, nucleation and crystal growth, and will offer a huge benefit to all parties by the discussion of similar problems from different perspectives within these themes:

  • Biological Crystallisation Mechanisms
  • Current Ideas in Nucleation
  • Amorphous Precursor Phases
  • Self-assembly Crystal Growth Mechanisms

Confirmed invited speakers:

  • Professor Daan Frenkel (Introductory), University of Cambridge, UK
  • Professor Jim DeYoreo (Closing ), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  • Professor John Spencer Evans, New York University, USA
  • Professor Hiromichi Nagasawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Professor Dr Alfons van Blaaderen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Professor Laurie Gower, University of Florida at Gainsville, USA
  • Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University of Konstanz, Germany
  • Professor Peter Vekilov, University of Houston, USA
  • Professor Lee Penn, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Professor Bartosz Grzybowski, Northwestern University, USA

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 30 September 2011.

We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year.

Crystallisation - A Biological Perspective Faraday Discussion 159 23 - 25 July 2012 Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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:

The role of self-assembling polypeptides in building nanomaterials
Lei Liu, Katerina Busuttil, Shuai Zhang, Yanliang Yang, Chen Wang, Flemming Besenbacher and Mingdong Dong
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21338E

Emerging methods for fabricating functional structures by patterning and assembling engineered nanocrystals
M. L. Curri, R. Comparelli, M. Striccoli and A. Agostiano
DOI: 10.1039/B926146J

Or you can browse the recently published Nanoscale themed issue on Crystallization and Formation Mechanisms of Nanostructures, Guest Edited by Fiona Meldrum and Helmut Cölfen.

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Call for abstracts: Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods

Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods
Faraday Discussion 158
2 – 4 July 2012
Hof Van Wageningen, Netherlands

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 16 September 2011

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Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods: FD158 aims to provide a platform for the exchange of views between regular food scientists and non-food experts from the soft matter community. The discussion will involve state-of-the-art approaches and will explore these themes:

  • Structuring formation via external fields (shear, intensive heating, electric)
  • Structuring formation via self-assembly (adsorption at interfaces/organogels)
  • Slow dynamics in stabilized/jammed foods
  • Simulation of structured soft matter/foods at multiple length scales

Confirmed invited speakers:

  • Dr Job Ubbink (Introductory), Nestlé Research Center, Switzerland
  • Professor Kees de Kruif (Closing), Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Professor Ian Norton, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Professor Remco Boom, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Professor Mike Cates, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Professor Ashim Datta, Cornell University, USA
  • Professor Alejandro Marangoni, University of Guelph, Canada
  • Professor Erik van der Linden, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Professor Hajime Tanaka, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Professor Peter Schurtenberger, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 16 September 2011.

We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year.

SOft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods: FD158

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:

Multiscale modeling of soft matter: scaling of dynamics
Dominik Fritz, Konstantin Koschke, Vagelis A. Harmandaris, Nico F. A. van der Vegt and Kurt Kremer
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20247B

Monoolein: a magic lipid?
Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni, Wolfgang Wachter, Guillermo Iglesias-Salto, Sandra Engelskirchen and Silvia Ahualli
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01539C

Small-world rheology: an introduction to probe-based active microrheology
Laurence G. Wilson and Wilson C. K. Poon
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01564D

Or you can browse the recently published PCCP themed issues on Scattering methods applied to soft matter and Single-molecule optical studies of soft and complex matter.


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Hydrogen Storage Materials: Faraday Discussions 151 now published!

CoverFaraday 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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Molecular Reaction Dynamics: call for abstracts

Molecular Reaction Dynamics in Gases, Liquids and Interfaces
Faraday Discussion 157
25 – 27 June 2012
Assisi, Italy

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 26 August 2011

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 Molecular Reaction Dynamics: FD157 aims to define the state-of-the-art and to outline the future prospects for this whole exciting area of research, with impact in many fields of science. The discussion will follow these key-themes:

  • Bimolecular reaction dynamics in the gas-phase
  • Photodissociation dynamics in the gas and liquid-phase
  • Reaction dynamics at interfaces (gas-liquid and gas-solid)
  • Ultrafast reaction dynamics in the condensed phase         

 Confirmed invited speakers:

  • Fleming F Crim (Introductory) – University of Wisconsin, USA
  • Richard Zare (Closing) – Stanford University, USA
  • Rainer Beck – EPFL, Switzerland
  • Joel M Bowman – Emory University, USA
  • Stephen Bradforth – University of Southern California, USA
  • Martin Gruebele – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Kopin Liu, IAMS – Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • Todd Martinez – Stanford University, USA
  • Daniel Neumark – University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • John Tully – Yale University, USA

Faraday Discussions are a long-established series of meetings which provide a unique international platform for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The Discussion is a dynamic forum for developing and exchanging exciting new ideas, and both the papers and discussion will be published in a final printed volume. The latest Impact Factor is 4.5.

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 26 August 2011 to Events adding ‘FD157 abstract’ in the subject line. We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year. 

FD157

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Frontiers in Spectroscopy: Faraday Discussions Volume 150 now published

Faraday Discussions 150: Frontiers in Spectroscopy has now been published online

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

  • High- and ultrahigh-resolution spectroscopy 
  • Biomolecules in the gas and condensed phases 
  • Computational methods 
  • Spectroscopy for molecular dynamics   
  • Highlights from the volume include:

    Spectroscopy and astronomy: H3+ from the laboratory to the Galactic center
    Takeshi Oka, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 150, 9. (Introductory lecture)

    Non-Born–Oppenheimer wavepacket dynamics in polyatomic molecules: vibrations at conical intersections in DABCO
    Andrey E. Boguslavskiy, Michael S. Schuurman, Dave Townsend and Albert Stolow, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 150, 419

    Single-conformation spectroscopy and population analysis of model gamma-peptides: New tests of amide stacking
    Evan G. Buchanan, William H. James III, Anna Gutberlet, Jacob C. Dean, Li Guo, Samuel H. Gellman and Timothy S. Zwier, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 150, 209

    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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    Faraday Discussions latest Impact Factor 4.5

    New citation data just released by Thomson ISI shows the new Impact Factor of Faraday Discussions to be 4.5.

    We wish to thank all those who have taken part in previous Faraday Discussions – your input has made this dynamic journal what it is.

    Take a look at recent published Faraday Discussions:

    Analysis for Healthcare Diagnostics and Theranostics

    Theory and Mechanism in Bioinorganic Chemistry

    Chemistry of the Planets

    Wetting Dynamics of Hydrophobic and Structured Surfaces

    Frontiers in Physical Organic Chemistry

    Multiscale Modelling of Soft Matter

    There is also still time to take part in these upcoming Discussions:

    Coherence and Control in Chemistry: Faraday Discussion 153
    25 – 27 July 2011, Leeds, UK

    Ionic Liquids: Faraday Discussion 154
    22 – 24 August 2011, Belfast, UK

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

    Or see our website for Faraday Discussions planned for 2012 – Future Faraday Discussions

    Find out more about RSC Publishing’s 2010 Impact Factors

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    HOT article: full-scale hydrogen-storage tank

    Read this ‘HOT article’ from Faraday Discussion 151: Hydrogen Storage Materials

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    HOT article: Eco-friendly canal boat using alternative energy technologies

    Read this ‘HOT article’ from Faraday Discussion 151: Hydrogen Storage Materials

    This Faraday Discussions paper features a project which converted a diesel-powered British Waterways canal boat into a new and improved eco-friendly vessel, eliminating water, noise, and air pollution.

    Scientists from the University of Birmingham and Empa, Switzerland used a combination of new energy technologies on the canal boat; solid-state hydrogen storage, a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell, lead-acid battery pack and a high-efficiency, permanent magnet (NdFeB) electric motor.

    This project showed how new generation energy materials which are currently being developed can have real life applications… from canal boats to buses and cars!


    Read this exciting Faraday Discussions article today:

    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

    hybrid hydrogen battery canal boat

    The Ross Barlow, hybrid hydrogen battery canal boat.

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    Artificial Photosynthesis Conference – early bird registration

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

    Early bird registration and poster abstract deadline – 01 July 2011
    Registration deadline – 05 August 2011

    Submit a poster abstract for consideration or register for this exciting conference today!

    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

    FD155

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