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Solid Oxide Electrolysis: poster deadline 12 May

06 May 2015

Join us for our Faraday Discussions meeting on Solid Oxide Electrolysis: Fuels and Feedstocks from Water and Air in York, UK from 13 – 15 July, 2015.

	The poster abstract deadline has been extended: Submit by 12 May
	Register by 25 May to receive a discount

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

Development of a diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) cell for the in situ analysis of co-electrolysis in a solid oxide cell – Open Access
Denis Cumming, Christopher Tumilson, Rebecca Taylor, Sarayute Chansai, Ann Virginia Call, Johan Jacquemin, Chris Hardacre and Rachael Helen Elder
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00030K

Oxygen Deficient Layered Double Perovskite as an Active Cathode for CO2 Electrolysis Using Solid Oxide Conductor
Tae Ho Shin, Jae-Ha Myung, Maarten Christiaan Verbraeken, Guntae Kim and John T.S. Irvine
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00025D

Chromium deposition and poisoning of La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 oxygen electrodes of solid oxide electrolysis cells
Kongfa Chen, Junji Hyodo, Aaron Dodd, Na Ai, Tatsumi Ishihara, Jian Li and San Ping Jiang
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00010F

Synthesis of mesoporous nanocomposites for their application in solid oxide electrolysers cells: microstructural and electrochemical characterization
Marc Torrell, Alex Morata, Laura Almar and Alberto Tarancon
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00035A

Evaluation of oxide ceramics as anodes for SOECs
Andreas Egger, Nina Schrödl and Werner Sitte
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00021A

Interpreting equilibrium-conductivity and conductivity-relaxation measurements to establish thermodynamic and transport properties for multiple charged defect conducting ceramics
Huayang Zhu, Sandrine Ricote, Grover Coors and Robert Kee
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00012B

Syngas Production by High Temperature Steam/CO2 Coelectrolysis Using Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells
Xinbing Chen, Chengzhi Guan, Xiao Guoping, Xianlong Du and Jian-Qiang Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00017C

Electrochemical stability of Sm0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ-infiltrated YSZ oxygen electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells/electrolysis cells
Mingfang Han and Hui Fan
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00022J

Synthesis of ammonia directly from wet air using Sm0.6Ba0.4Fe0.8Cu0.2O3-delta as the catalyst
Rong Lan, Khaled A. Alkhazmi, Ibrahim Amar and Shanwen Tao
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00033E

Relating surface chemistry and oxygen surface exchange in LnBaCo2O5-δ air electrodes
Helena Téllez, John Druce, John A Kilner and Tatsumi Ishihara
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00027K

Oxygen exchange and transport in dual phase ceramic composite electrodes
John Druce, Helena Téllez, Tatsumi Ishihara and John A Kilner
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00028A

Calcium Manganite as oxygen electrode materials for reversible solid oxide fuel cell
Chengsheng Ni and John T.S. Irvine
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00026B

Electrochemistry of La0.3Sr0.7Fe0.7Cr0.3O3-δ as an Oxygen and Fuel Electrode for RSOFCs
Beatriz Molero-Sánchez, Paul Addo, Aligul Buyukaksoy, Scott Paulson and Viola I. Birss
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00029G

Improved electrochemical stability at the surface of La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 achieved by surface chemical modification
Nikolai Tsvetkov, Qiyang Lu and Bilge Yildiz
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00023H

Surface Modifications of La0.8Sr0.2CrO3-δ-YSZ Dual-Phase Membranes for Syngas Production
Anthony Sky Yu, Tae-Sik Oh, Ran Zhu, Alexa M. Gallegos, Raymond J Gorte and John Vohs
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00007F

Proton uptake in the H+-SOFC cathode material Ba0.5Sr0.5Fe0.8Zn0.2O3-δ: Transition from hydration to hydrogenation with increasing oxygen partial pressure
Daniel Poetzsch, Rotraut Merkle and Joachim Maier
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00013K

Electrode kinetics of the NiO porous electrode for oxygen production in the molten carbonate electrolysis cell (MCEC)
Lan Hu, Göran Lindbergh and Carina Lagergren
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00011D

Is the surface oxygen exchange rate linked to bulk ion diffusivity in mixed conducting Ruddlesden-Popper phases?
Alex C Tomkiewicz, Mazin A Tamimi, Ashfia Huq and Steven McIntosh
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00014A

Co-electrolysis of steam and CO2 in full-ceramic symmetrical SOECs: A strategy for avoiding the use of hydrogen as a safe gas
Marc Torrell, Sergio García-Rodríguez, Alex Morata, Germán Penelas and Alberto Tarancon
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00018A

John Irvine and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to York.

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Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly – Last chance to register

17 Mar 2015

It’s the last opportunity to register for our Faraday Discussion on Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly next month at Argonne National Laboratory, USA.

Register by the 23 March to secure your place!

The meeting takes place on 20-22 April 2015 and it is a great opportunity to get involved in discussions with outstanding researchers in this field, including Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley), Lucio Isa (ETH Zürich), Brian Korgel (The University of Texas at Austin), Peter Schurtenberger (Lund University) and Toshiharu Teranishi (Kyoto University) plus many more.

You can find full details of the programme on our website.

Any delegate can present their own results as part of the Discussion. For a taster of the research that will be discussed, read this selection of Accepted Articles which will be presented at the meeting:

Biologically controlled synthesis and assembly of magnetite nanoparticles
Mathieu Bennet, luca bertinetti, Robert Kenneth Neely, andreas schertel, André Körnig, Cristina Flors, Frank D. Müller, Dirk Schüler, Stefan Klumpp and Damien Faivre
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00240G
Open Access

Mechanical properties of self-assembled nanoparticle membranes: stretching and bending
Yifan Wang, Pongsakorn Kanjanaboos, Sean McBride, Edward Barry, Xiao-Min Lin and Heinrich Jaeger
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00243A

Determination of a Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Mode of Cu₇S₄ Nanodisks by Plasmon Coupling
Lihui Chen, Masanori Sakamoto, Ryota Sato and Toshiharu Teranishi
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00239C

A new route towards colloidal molecules with externally tunable interaction sites
Linda K Månsson, Jasper N Immink, Adriana M. Mihut, Peter Schurtenberger and Jérôme J. Crassous
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00267A

Soft-patchy nanoparticles: modeling and self-organization
Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Gerhard Kahl and Christos N Likos
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00271G

Nanocrystal Superlattices that Exhibit Improved Order On Heating: An Example of Inverse Melting?
Yixuan Yu, Avni Jain, Adrien Guillaussier, Vikas Reddy, Thomas M Truskett, Detlef Smilgies and Brian A Korgel
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00006H

Nanoparticle Insights into mechanisms of capillary assembly
Songbo Ni, Jessica Leemann, Heiko Wolf and Lucio Isa
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00250D

Concentrated assemblies of magnetic nanoparticles in Ionic Liquids
Marianna Mamusa, Juliette Sirieix Plenet, Regine Perzynski, Fabrice Cousin, Emmanuelle Dubois and Véronique PEYRE
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00019J

Nanoparticle synthesis and assembly Kinetics of Aggregation and Growth Processes of PEG-Stabilised Mono- and Multivalent Gold Nanoparticles in Highly Concentrated Halide Solutions
Benjamin Stein, David Zopes, Madlen Schmudde, Ralf Schneider, Ahmed Mohsen, Christian Goroncy, Sanjay Mathur and Christina Maria Graf
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00024F

Soft repulsive interactions, particle rearrangements and size selection in the self-assembly of nanoparticles at liquid interfaces
Konrad Schwenke and Emanuela Del Gado
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00001G

Directing the orientational alignment of anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles using dynamic magnetic fields
Daniel Hoffelner, Matthias Kundt, Annette Monika Schmidt, Emmanuel Kentzinger, Philipp Bender and Sabrina Disch
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00242C

Changing the Magnetic Properties of Microstructure by Directing the Self-assembly of Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles
Suvojit Ghosh and Ishwar K. Puri
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00245H

Synthesis of multivalent silica nanoparticles combining both enthalpic and entropic patchiness
Céline Hubert, Cyril Chomette, Anthony Désert, ming SUN, Mona Treguer, Stéphane Mornet, Adeline Perro, Etienne Duguet and Serge Ravaine
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00241E

Optically Anisotropic Substrates via Wrinkle-Assisted Convective Assembly of Gold Nanorods on Macroscopic Areas
Moritz Tebbe, Martin Mayer, Bernhard A. Glatz, Christoph Hanske, Patrick T. Probst, Mareen B. Mueller, Matthias Karg, Munish Chanana, Tobias König, Christian Kuttner and Andreas Fery
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00236A

Trioctylphosphine as self-assembly inducer
Gunadhor Singh Okram, Jaiveer Singh, Netram Kaurav and Niranjan Prasad Lalla
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00248B

Magnetic field-induced self-assembly of iron oxide nanocubes
Gurvinder Singh, Henry Chan, T. Udayabhaskararao, Elijah Gelman, Davide Peddis, Artem Baskin, Gregory Leitus, Petr Kral and Rafal Klajn
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00265B

Platinum and platinum based nanoalloys synthesized by wet chemistry
Caroline Salzemann, farid kameche, Anh-Tu NGO, Pascal Andreazza, monica calatayud and Christophe Petit
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00002E

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Corrosion Chemistry – poster deadline

02 Feb 2015

We are delighted to share with you a selection of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on the theme of Corrosion Chemistry in London, UK from 13-15 April 2015.

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 Gerald Frankel (Ohio State University), John Scully (University of Virginia), Roger Newman (University of Toronto), Hiroki Habazaki (Hokkaido University) and many more.

Submit your poster abstract by 9 February and get involved

Registration is now open – register by 2 March to receive a discount

The authors of these articles will have just 5 minutes to present their work in London with most of the meeting time used to discuss and debate the results. Every delegate can contribute.

We will make a record of the discussion to be published as General Discussion alongside all the articles presented in the final volume of Faraday Discussions.

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

Aqueous solution/metal interfaces investigated in operando by photoelectron spectroscopy
Osman Karslioglu, Slavo Nemsak, Ioannis Zegkinoglou, Andrey Shavorskiy, Matthias Hartl, Farhad Salmassi, Eric Gullikson, May-Ling Ng, Chrisptoph Rameshan, Bruce Rude, Davide Bianculli, Amy Cordones-Hahn, Stephanus Axnanda, Ethan Crumlin, P N Ross, Claus M. Schneider, Zahid Hussain, Zhi Liu, Charles S Fadley and Hendrik Bluhm
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00003C

Determination of Mg alloys local corrosion rate using shear force mounted scanning microcapillary method
Philippe Dauphin-Ducharme, W. Jeffrey Binns, Michael E Snowden, D W Shoesmith and Janine Mauzeroll
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00276H

In-situ monitoring of corrosion mechanisms and phosphate inhibitor surface deposition during corrosion of Zinc Magnesium Aluminium (ZMA) alloys using novel time-lapse microscopy.
James Sullivan, Nathan Cooze, Callum Gallagher, Thomas Lewis, Tomas Prosek and Dominique Thierry
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00251B

The corrosion protection of AA 2024-T3 aluminium alloy by leaching of lithium-containing salts from organic coatings
Peter Visser, Yanwen Lui, Xiaorong Zhou, Teruo Hashimoto, George Thompson, Stuart Lyon, Leendert G.J. van der Ven, Arjan J.M.C. Mol and Herman Terryn
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00237G

Water corrosion of spent nuclear fuel: radiolysis driven dissolution at the UO₂/water interface
Ross Springell, Sophie Rennie, Leila Costelle, James Darnbrough, Camilla Amy Stitt, Elizabeth Cocklin, Christopher Lucas , Robert Burrows, Howard E. Sims, Didier Wermeille, Jonathan Rawle, Chris Nicklin, William Nuttall, Thomas Scott and Gerard Lander
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00254G

Multiphysics modelling, quantum chemistry and risk analysis for corrosion inhibitor design and lifetime prediction
Christopher Taylor, Ashwini Chandra, Jose Vera and Narasi Sridhar
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00220B

Atmospheric pitting corrosion of 304L stainless steel: the role of highly concentrated chloride solutions
Trevor Rayment, Steven Richard Street, Na Mi, Angus J M C Cook, Haval B Mohammed-Ali, Liya Guo and Alison Davenport
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00246F

Structure-charge relationship – the case of hematite (001)
Johannes Lützenkirchen, Frank Heberling, Filip Supljika, Tajana Preocanin, Nikola Kallay, Florian Johann, Ludger Weisser and Peter Eng
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00260A

First stages of siderite crystallisation during CO₂ corrosion of steel evaluated using in-situ synchrotron small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering.
Bridget Ingham, Monika Ko, Nicholas J Laycock, Nigel Kirby and David Edward Williams
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00218K

Corrosion protection of iron using porous anodic oxide/conducting polymer composite coatings
Yoshiki Konno, Etsushi Tsuji, Yoshitaka AOKI, Toshiaki Ohtsuka and Hiroki Habazaki
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00232F

The influence of hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen on the corrosion of simulated spent nuclear fuel
Mayuri Razdan and D W Shoesmith
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00221K

Identification of bulk oxide defects in an electrochemical environment
Mira Todorova and Jörg Neugebauer
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00238E

Effects of molybdenum on the composition and nanoscale morphology of passivated austenitic stainless steel surfaces
Vincent Maurice, Hao Peng, Lorena H. Klein, Antoine Seyeux, Sandrine Zanna and Philippe Marcus
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00231H

We hope you enjoy reading these articles and that you will join us for Corrosion Chemistry. Dr Robert Lindsay and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to London.

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Sneak preview: Nanoplasmonics accepted papers

18 Nov 2014

We are delighted to share with you a selection of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on the theme of Nanoplasmonics in London, UK from 16-18 February 2015.

We hope you enjoy reading the articles. Join us for this Discussion and to present your own research poster alongside leading scientists including Mark Brongersma (Stanford University), Niek van Hulst (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences), Sergey Bozhevolnyi (University of Southern Denmark), Martin Moskovits (University of California, Santa Barbara) and many more.

Submit your poster abstract by 8 December and get involved

Registration is now open – register by 5 January 2015 to receive a discount

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

Surface Plasmon Enabled Liquid-Junction Photovoltaic Cell
Martin Moskovits, Woo-ram James Lee, Galen D Stucky and Syed Mubeen Jawahar Hussaini
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00185K

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

Relaxation dynamics of a quantum emitter resonantly coupled to a coherent state of localized surface plasmon
Khachatur V Nerkararyan and Sergey Bozhevolnyi
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00165F

Plasmonics on the slope of enlightenment: the role of transition metal nitrides
Urcan Guler, Alexander Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva and Vladimir Shalaev
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00208C

Light emission in nonlocal plasmonic metamaterials
Viktor Podolskiy, Pavel Ginzburg, Brian Wells and Anatoly Zayats
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00186A

Plasmonic networks for single-photon emission control
Michele Gaio, Marta Castro-Lopez, Jan Renger, Prof. Dr. Niek F. van Hulst and Riccardo Sapienza
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00187G

Fluorescence axial nanotomography with plasmonics
Nicholas I Cade, Gilbert Fruhwirth, Alexey V Krasavin, Tony Ng and David Richards
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00198B

Ultimate limit of field confinement by surface plasmon polaritons
Jacob Khurgin
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00193A

Ultrafast dynamics of nanoplasmonic stopped-light lasing
Sebastian Wuestner, Tim Pickering, Joachim M Hamm, A Freddie Page, Andreas Pusch and Ortwin Hess
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00181H

Surface plasmon enhanced energy transfer between gold nanorods and fluorophores:application to endosytosis study and RNA detection
Yinan Zhang, Guoke Wei, Jun Yu, David Birch and Yu Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00199K

Second Harmonic Generation on Self-Assembled Tilted Gold Nanowires
Alessandro Belardini, Marco Centini, Grigore Leahu, Eugenio Fazio, Concita Sibilia, Josef Haus and Andrew Sarangan
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00200H

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Physical Chemistry of Functionalised Biomedical Nanoparticles – last chance to register!

07 Aug 2014

Check out a selection of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on the theme of Physical Chemistry of Functionalised Biomedical Nanoparticles taking place in Bristol, UK from 17-19th September 2014.

We hope that you will join us to discuss this exciting topic along with leading scientists including Paul Alivisatos, Hedi Mattoussi, Mostafa El-Sayed, Peter Dobson and many more.

Registration closes on 18 August, so make sure you book your place today!

You can find out more about the unique format of Faraday Discussions on our FAQs page.

Enjoy reading this selection of Accepted Manuscripts:

A Multifunctional Amphiphilic Polymer as a Platform for Surface-Functionalizing Metallic and other Inorganic Nanostructures
Wentao Wang, fadi aldeek, Xin Ji, Birong Zeng and Hedi Mattoussi
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00154K

Multifunctional Silica-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: A Facile Four-in-One System for In-Situ Study of Neural Stem Cells Harvesting
yung-kang Peng, Cathy N.P. Lui, Tsen-Hsuan Lin, Chen Chang, Pi-Tai Chou, Ken KL Yung and Edman Tsang
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00132J

A low cost synthesis method for functionalised iron oxide nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermia from readily available materials
Ivan P Parkin, Joseph C Bear, Bin Yu, Cristina Blanco Andujar, Quentin Andrew Pankhurst, Paul Mcnaughter, Paul Southern and Marc-Krystelle Mafina
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00062E

Functionalised Gold and Titania Nanoparticles and Surfaces For Use as Antimicrobial Coatings
Sacha Noimark, Kristopher Page, Joseph C Bear, Carlos Sotelo-Vazquez, Raul Quesada Cabrera, Yao Lu, Elaine Allan, Jawwad A Darr and Ivan P Parkin
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00113C

Design of FeBi nanoparticles for imaging applications
Marlene Branca, Frederic Pelletier, Diana Ciuculescu, Chun-Cheng Lin, Raphael Serra, Jean-Gabriel Mattei, Marie-José Casanove, Reasmey Tan, Marc Respaud, Catherine Amiens and Baptiste Cottin
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00105B

The Properties and Performance of a pH-responsive Functionalised Nanoparticle
Sandra Ast, Peter Rutledge and Matthew Houghton Todd
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00110A

Bisphosphonate ligands improve the water solubility of quantum dots
Siti Fatimah Abdul Ghani, Michael Wright, Juan Gallo-Paramo, Melanie Bottrill Bottrill, Mark Green, Nicholas J Long and M. Thanou
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00151F

Lanthanide Nano-drums: A New Class of Molecular Nanoparticles for Potential Biomedical Applications
Richard A Jones, Annie J Gnanam, Jonathan F Arambula, Jessica N Jones, Jagannath Swaminathan, Xiaoping Yang, Desmond Schipper, Justin W. Hall, Lauren J DePue, Yakhya Dieye, Jamuna Vadivelu, Don J Chandler, Edward M Marcotte, Jonathan L Sessler, Lauren I R Ehrlich and Katherine A Brown
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00117F

Aptamer-Conjugated Theranostic Hybrid Graphene Oxide with Highly Sensitive Biosensing and Combined Therapy Capability
Bhanu Priya Viraka Nellore, Avijit Pramanik, Suhash Reddy Chavva, Sudarson Sekhar Sinha, Christen Robinson, Zhen Fan, Rajashekar Kanchanapally, Justin Grennell, Ivy Weaver, Ashton T. Hamme II and Paresh C Ray
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00074A

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Next-Generation Materials for Energy Chemistry – poster deadline

09 Jul 2014

We are delighted to share with you a selection of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on the theme of Next-Generation Materials for Energy Chemistry taking place in Xiamen, China from 27-29th October 2014.

We hope that you will join us to discuss this exciting topic along with leading scientists including Peidong Yang, Lee Cronin, Nenad Markovic, Zhong Lin Wang and many more. Register today!

Submit a poster abstract by 18th August

You can find out more about the unique format of Faraday Discussions on our FAQs page.

Enjoy reading this selection of Accepted Manuscripts:

Comparison of photoelectrochemical water oxidation activity of a synthetic photocatalyst system with Photosystem II
Yi-Hsuan Lai, Masaru Kato, Dirk Mersch and Erwin Reisner
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00059E

Graphene-supported iron-based nanoparticles encapsulated in nitrogen-doped carbon as a synergistic catalyst for hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions
Xinhe Bao, Jing Wang, Guoxiong Wang, Shu Miao and Jiayuan Li
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00123K

Bridging Silicon Nanoparticles and Thermoelectrics: Phenylacetylene Functionalization
Shane Ashby, Jason A. Thomas, Jorge García-Cañadas, Gao Min, Jack Corps, Anthony V Powell, Hualong Xu, Wei Shen and Yimin Chao
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00109E

Carbonization of Self-assembled Nanoporous Hemin with a Significantly Enhanced Activity for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Yan Xie, Chizhou Tang, Zhiqiang Hao, Yang Lv, Ruixia Yang, Xuming Wei, Wei-Qiao Deng, Anjie Wang, Baolian Yi and Yujiang Song
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00121D

Mechanisms for CO oxidation on Fe(III)-OH-Pt interface: a DFT study
Gang Fu, Nanfeng Zheng, Guangxu Chen and Yun Zhao
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00144C

Effect of Double Blocking Layers at TiO₂/Sb₂S₃ and Sb₂S₃/spiro-MeOTAD Interfaces on Photovoltaic Performance
Nam-Gyu Park, Hyun-Woo Kang and Jin-Wook Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00126E

A facile two-step method for fabrication of plate-like WO₃ photoanode under mild conditions
Nan Wang, Jian Zhu, Xiaojia Zheng, Feng-Qiang Xiong, Baokun Huang, Jingying Shi and Can Li
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00139G

Mesoporous Perovskite Solar Cells: Material Composition, Charge-Carrier Dynamics, and Device Characteristics
Yixin Zhao, Alexandre Nardes and Kai Zhu
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00128A

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Nucleation: an article collection and an upcoming meeting

20 Jun 2014

We are delighted to highlight some excellent research recently published in a range of Royal Society of Chemistry journals on a theme of nucleation and its role in directing the assembly of materials.

Nucleation – A Transition State to the Directed Assembly of Materials is also the topic of a Faraday Discussions meeting taking place in Leeds, UK from 3 March – 1 April 2015.

Find out more about the meeting on our website and then submit your oral abstract via our submission system today. The deadline is 30 June 2014.

You can also find more details about what makes Faraday Discussions different from other meetings.

We hope you enjoy the following selection of reviews and original research:

Crystallising trimesic acid from DMSO solutions – can crystallography teach us anything about the process of crystal nucleation?
Roger J. Davey, Monika Brychczynska, Ghazala Sadiq, Geoffrey Dent and Robin G. Pritchard
CrystEngComm, 2013,15, 856-859
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26712H

Ionic co-crystals of racetams: solid-state properties enhancement of neutral active pharmaceutical ingredients via addition of Mg2+ and Ca2+ chlorides
Fabrizia Grepioni, Johan Wouters, Dario Braga, Saverio Nanna, Baptiste Fours, Gérard Coquerel, Geraldine Longfils, Sandrine Rome, Luc Aerts and Luc Quéré
CrystEngComm, 2014, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00409D

Pre-nucleation clusters as solute precursors in crystallisation
Denis Gebauer, Matthias Kellermeier, Julian D. Gale, Lennart Bergström and Helmut Cölfen
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2014, 43, 2348-2371
DOI: 10.1039/C3CS60451A

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Organic Photonics & Electronics – HOT research in Faraday Discussions

10 Jun 2014

It’s all HOT research (as recommended by the referees) and it’s all due to be discussed at Organic Phontonics & Electronics: Faraday Discussion 174 in Strathclyde from 8-10 September 2014.

You can get involved:

Present a poster – submit a poster abstract by 16 June 2014
Every delegate can contribute to the discussion which is recorded along with the papers in the Faraday Discussions journal. Register now to attend this exciting meeting.

Read these papers to have a sneak-preview of the HOT research featuring at this exciting event:

Breaking the simple proportionality between molecular conductances and charge transfer rates
Ravindra Venkatramani, Emil Wierzbinski, David H Waldeck and David N Beratan
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00106K

Dynamic Amplification of Light Signals in Photorefractive Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Mixtures
Takeo Sasaki, Satoshi Kajikawa and Yumiko Naka
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00068D

Computation of Hole Mobilities: Comparison of Single Crystal and Surface Adsorbed Models
Rose A Krawczuk, Joseph J.W. McDouall, William Mitchell and Steven Tierney
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00082J

Highly efficient organic devices based on small-molecule organic semiconductors
Karl Leo, Vadim Lyssenko and Simone Hofmann
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00094C

Bio-sorbable, liquid electrolyte gated thin-film transistor based on a solution processed zinc oxide layer
Luisa Torsi, Mandeep Singh, Gerardo Palazzo, Giuseppe Romanazzi, Gian Paolo Suranna, Nicoletta Ditaranto, Cinzia Di Franco, Maria Vittoria Santacroce, Mohammad Yusuf Mulla, Maria Magliulo and Kyriaki Manoli
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00081A

Hybrid organic semiconductor lasers for bio-molecular sensing
Anne-Marie Haughey, Caroline Foucher, Benoit Guilhabert, Alexander Kanibolotsky, Peter Skabara, Glenn A Burley, Martin D Dawson and Nicolas Laurand
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00091A

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

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Join us to discuss this HOT research

09 Jun 2014

Check out these HOT articles which have recently been published as Accepted Manuscripts in Faraday Discussions:

Effects of Structural Disorder and Surface Chemistry on Electric Conductivity and Capacitance of Porous Carbon Electrodes

Boris Dyatkin and Yury Gogotsi
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00048J

Redox-active electrolyte for supercapacitor application
Elzbieta Frackowiak, Mikolaj Meller, Jakub Menzel, Dominika Gastol and Krzysztof Fic
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00052H

Nanodiamond surface redox chemistry: influence of physicochemical properties on catalytic processes
Thomas Varley, Katherine B Holt, George Harrison and Meetal Hirani
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00041B

Organocatalysis for New Chiral Fullerene-based Materials
Rosa M. Girón, Silvia Reboredo, Juan Marco-Martínez, Salvatorre Filippone and Nazario Martin
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00065J

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Opportunities for discussion with prize winning researchers

06 May 2014

We are delighted to announce that the Spiers Memorial Award Winners for 2014 are:

	Professor Pulickel M. Ajayan, Rice University for his pioneering contributions to the field of carbon based nanomaterials.
	Professor Fred Wudl, University of California, Santa Barbara for his many innovative developments to the field of organic electroactive materials and plastic electronics.

We invite you to join us and hear these award winning researchers delivering their introductory lecture at a Faraday Discussions meeting later in the year.

Prof. Ajayan will deliver the Introductory lecture at New Advances in Carbon Nanomaterials: Faraday Discussion 173 which takes place in London between 1 – 3 September 2014.

Prof. Wudl will be starting off proceedings with his lecture at Organics, Photonics & Electronics: Faraday Discussion 174 in Strathclyde, Scotland (8-10 September 2014).

As with all Faraday Discussion meetings there is also an opportunity for you to take part:

Submit a poster. The deadlines are 23 June 2014 for New Advances in Carbon Nanomaterials, and 16 June 2014 for Organics, Photonics and Electronics.

Join the disussion. All the discussion of papers at the meeting are recorded and published as part of the final volume so every delegate has a chance to be fully involved. There is more information on how Faraday Discussions work in our FAQs.

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