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Register now for FD162: Fabrication, Structure and Reactivity of Anchored Nanoparticles

19 Feb 2013

We’d love you to join us for FD162: Fabrication, Structure and Reactivity of Anchored Nanoparticles which will take place in Berlin, Germany from 10-12 April 2013.

Check out the programme on the website – highlights include Gabor Somorjai (University of California at Berkeley) and Charlie Campbell (University of Washington Seattle) giving the opening and closing lectures.

Faraday Discussions are a unique and high-impact series of international conferences. Each Faraday Discussion is on a specific “hot topic”, and 24 papers are presented and discussed by world class speakers.

The 24 papers and discussion (including new research presented by any delegate) are published in the Faraday Discussions journal. The journal is SCI indexed, and the latest Impact Factor (IF) is 5.0

Attending a Faraday Discussion is a unique opportunity to discuss your work with leading researchers in important areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics.

We hope to see you there! Register to attend by 15th March 2013.

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Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects: FD160

13 Feb 2013

Figure reproduced from the Introductory Lecture of FD160 (DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20128C)

If you take two glasses of water and dissolve sodium chloride in the one and sodium iodide in the other, I can tell you that in the first glass you have a deficiency of anions in the water-air interface and an accumulation of negative ions in the same interface in the latter glass. I can also tell you that if you dip a glass stirrer into one glass it will become negatively charged, where it in the other will get a positively charged. The last piece of wonder I can share is that if you use a plastic spoon instead the effects are reversed.

The examples I gave above are all examples of Hofmeister effects, where the nature of a small ion dictates specific events to occur in larger systems. The example with iodide and chloride are not the most extreme and the effects described above are small. The extreme cases include sulphate, perchlorate and hexafluorophosphate, the former is extremely hydrophilic and the two other are very lipophilic. Cations are an altogether different story all-together.

The importance of the Hofmeister effects are not to be underestimated as all biological processes and structures have to exist in ion-rich environments. Strip away the ions or introduce large quantities of an alien small ion and the processes and structures are disrupted. Killing an organism by introducing potassium is an easy experiment. Understanding the effects of chloride, bromide and sodium on every single piece of the biological machinery is much more challenging. The challenge is being met by the group of researchers who attended the 160^thFaraday Discussion on Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects. Their latest findings and a thorough introduction to the subject is published in the recent issue of Faraday Discussions.

Much, much more information and many insights can be gleaned in the themes issue of Faraday Discussion on Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects.

by Dr Thomas Just Sørensen

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HOT article on surface interactions of gold to be discussed at FD162 – Register to join us

18 Dec 2012

Japanese scientists have reported their work on the interactions of gold species on titania in a Faraday Discussions Accepted Manuscript. They found that the Au-anion interaction is mainly responsible for stabilising Au atoms on a thiol modified titania surface, while only Au₅₅ clusters were found on a bare titania surface.

This is important in developing an understanding of how such systems behave during catalytic reactions, and suggests that surface modification may be a useful method for controlling the Au species on titania.

This paper will be among those discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussion 162: Fabrication, Structure and Reactivity of Anchored Nanoparticles in Berlin.

Registration for this exciting is event is now open.

All delegates will have the opportunity to present their views on the Discussion papers and their own new research. All the presented papers and the discussion will be published together in the Faraday Discussion volume. The latest Impact Factor is 5.0.

Register today to attend Faraday Discussion 162: Fabrication, Structure and Reactivity of Anchored Nanoparticles.

Read this hot discussion paper in full:

Preparation and structure of a single Au atom on the TiO₂(110) surface: Control of the Au-metal oxide surface interaction
Kiyotaka Asakura, Satoru Takakusagi, Hiroko Ariga, Wang-Jae Chun, Shushi Suzuki, Yuichiro Koike, Hiromitsu Uehara, Kotaro Miyazaki and Yasuhiro Iwasawa
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20131C

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FD158: Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods is now published

17 Oct 2012

We are pleased to announce the publication of Faraday Discussion 158 on Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods.

Take a look at the volume today

In the volume you can find all the papers and exciting discussion from the conference held in Hof Van Wageningen, Netherlands in July 2012. Highlights include:

Soft matter approaches to structured foods: from “cook-and-look” to rational food design?
Job Ubbink
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20125A

Critical laminar shear-temperature effects on the nano- and mesoscale structure of a model fat and its relationship to oil binding and rheological properties
Nuria C. Acevedo, Jane M. Block and Alejandro G. Marangoni
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20008B

Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets with internal microstructure
Amar B. Pawar, Marco Caggioni, Richard W. Hartel and Patrick T. Spicer
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20029E

Faraday Discussions documents 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 and its boundaries with other areas of science. The latest Impact Factor is 5.0.

Don’t miss out – find out more and take a look at future Faraday Discussions.
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is a sister journal of Faraday Discussions. 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.

Some recent ‘PCCP Perspective’ review articles in this area:

Water–protein dynamic coupling and new opportunities for probing it at low to physiological temperatures in aqueous solutions
Eugene Mamontov and Xiang-qiang Chu
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP41443K

How ionic liquids can help to stabilize native proteins
Hermann Weingärtner, Chiara Cabrele and Christian Herrmann
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21947B

Langmuir polymer films: recent results and new perspectives
F. Monroy, L. R. Arriaga and D. Langevin
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP42454A

These recent PCCP themed issues may be of interest:
• Scattering methods applied to soft matter
• Single-molecule optical studies of soft and complex matter

Also check out these other journals from RSC Publishing:
• Soft Matter
• Food and Function

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FD157: Molecular Reaction Dynamics in Gases, Liquids and Interfaces is now published

02 Oct 2012

We are pleased to announce the publication of Faraday Discussion 157, which we hope will be of interest to you:

Molecular Reaction Dynamics in Gases, Liquids and Interfaces

Take a look at the volume today

In the volume you can find all the papers and exciting discussion from the conference held in Assisi, Italy, in June 2012. These are just some of the highlights:

Molecular reaction dynamics across the phases: similarities and differences
F. Fleming Crim
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20123B

Imaging the effects of the antisymmetric stretch excitation of CH₄ in the reaction with F atom
Hiroshi Kawamata, Weiqing Zhang and Kopin Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20004J

Reaction dynamics at a metal surface; halogenation of Cu(110)
A. Eisenstein, L. Leung, T. Lim, Z. Ning and J. C. Polanyi
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20023F

Faraday Discussions documents 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 and its boundaries with other areas of science. The latest Impact Factor is 5.0.

Don’t miss out – find out more and take a look at future Faraday Discussions.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is a sister journal of Faraday Discussions. 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.

Some recent ‘PCCP Perspective’ review articles on reaction dynamics:

The role of molecular modeling in confined systems: impact and prospects
Keith E. Gubbins, Ying-Chun Liu, Joshua D. Moore and Jeremy C. Palmer
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01475C

High-dimensional ab initio potential energy surfaces for reaction dynamics calculations
Joel M. Bowman, Gábor Czakó and Bina Fu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02722G

The fourth age of quantum chemistry: molecules in motion
Attila G. Császár, Csaba Fábri, Tamás Szidarovszky, Edit Mátyus, Tibor Furtenbacher and Gábor Czakó
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21830A

Also check out these recent PCCP themed issues:

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Tribology: Faraday Discussion 156 now published!

12 Jul 2012

Faraday Discussion 156: Tribology has now been published online.

Please take a look at this interesting volume which covers the following themes:

Future lubricated systems
Smart tribological surfaces
Predictive modelling
Biotribology

This volume contains all the papers and discussions from the conference which took place in Southampton, UK in April this year. Please find some of the highlights below:

Introductory Lecture
Bio-tribology
Duncan Dowson
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 9-30
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20103H

‘HOT’ Articles
Hydration lubrication: exploring a new paradigm
Anastasya Gaisinskaya, Liran Ma, Gilad Silbert, Raya Sorkin, Odeya Tairy, Ronit Goldberg,Nir Kampf and Jacob Klein
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 217-233
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00127F
The mechanics of nanometre-scale molecular contacts
Katerina Busuttil, Nikolaos Nikogeorgos, Zhenyu Zhang, Mark Geoghegan, Christopher A. Hunter and Graham J. Leggett
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 325-341
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00133K

Concluding Lecture
Polyelectrolyte brushes: a novel stable lubrication system in aqueous conditions
Motoyasu Kobayashi, Masami Terada and Atsushi Takahara
Faraday Discuss., 2012, 156, 403-412
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD00123C

Please take a look at our blog on the FD156 conference which contains some ‘HOT’ articles highlighted by Chair Professor Robert Wood.

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

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Faraday Division Awards Symposium

09 Mar 2012

Faraday Division President Elect, Prof. Graham Hutchings with Award winners Professor Fred Manby, Professor Jeremy Hutson and Professor Michael L Klein.

The Faraday Division Awards Symposium took place this week at the University of Bristol.

About 60 people enjoyed the interesting talks given by the prize winners: Professor Fred Manby of the University of Bristol, Corday Morgan Prize winner, Professor Jeremy Hutson of Durham University, Tilden Prize winner and Professor Michael L. Klein of Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, the S F Boys-A Rahman Award winner.

All three winners have recent articles on their exciting theoretical work which you can read today:

Improving density functional theory for crystal polymorph energetics
Christopher R. Taylor , Peter J. Bygrave , Judy N. Hart , Neil L. Allan and Frederick R. Manby
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012
DOI: 10.1039/C2CP24090D

Cold collisions of an open-shell S-state atom with a ²Π molecule: N(⁴S) colliding with OH in a magnetic field
Wojciech Skomorowski , Maykel L. González-Martínez , Robert Moszynski and Jeremy M. Hutson
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 19077-19088
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21200A

Self-assembly of coarse-grained ionic surfactants accelerated by graphics processing units
David N. LeBard , Benjamin G. Levine , Philipp Mertmann , Stephen A. Barr , Arben Jusufi , Samantha Sanders , Michael L. Klein and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 2385-2397
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM06787G

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High impact international research from Faraday Discussions

28 Feb 2012

We would like to share with you some of the high impact international research recently published in Faraday Discussions.

Faraday Discussions are meetings which provide a unique international platform for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing research areas.

Faraday Discussions attract world-class speakers, including many Nobel Prize winners.

The papers and discussion are published in a Faraday Discussions volume. The latest Impact Factor is 4.5.

We have a packed programme of discussions in 2012. Please follow the links below to find out more:

Read these high impact papers from recent Faraday Discussions for free today:

Realizing artificial photosynthesis
Devens Gust, Thomas A. Moore and Ana L. Moore
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00110H

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

Interplay of theory and computation in chemistry—examples from on-water organic catalysis, enzyme catalysis, and single-molecule fluctuations
R. A. Marcus
DOI: 10.1039/B920917B

Multiscale simulation of soft matter systems
Christine Peter and Kurt Kremer
DOI: 10.1039/B919800H

Exploring nanoscale hydrophobic hydration
Peter J. Rossky
DOI: 10.1039/C005270C

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

Copper dioxygen (bio)inorganic chemistry
Edward I. Solomon, Jake W. Ginsbach, David E. Heppner, Matthew T. Kieber-Emmons, Christian H. Kjaergaard, Pieter J. Smeets, Li Tian and Julia S. Woertink
DOI: 10.1039/C005500J

New ionization methods and miniature mass spectrometers for biomedicine: DESI imaging for cancer diagnostics and paper spray ionization for therapeutic drug monitoring
R. Graham Cooks, Nicholas E. Manicke, Allison L. Dill, Demian R. Ifa, Livia S. Eberlin, Anthony B. Costa, He Wang, Guangming Huang and Zheng Ouyang
DOI: 10.1039/C005327A

Hydrogen as a fuel for today and tomorrow: expectations for advanced hydrogen storage materials/systems research
Katsuhiko Hirose
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00099C

Gold nanoparticle-polymer/biopolymer complexes for protein sensing
Daniel F. Moyano , Subinoy Rana , Uwe H. F. Bunz and Vincent M. Rotello
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00024A

Spectroscopy and astronomy: H₃⁺ from the laboratory to the Galactic center
Takeshi Oka
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00092F

Ultrafast laser control of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules and solids
Matthias Wollenhaupt and Thomas Baumert
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00109D

You can find all the papers and discussion from each of these exciting volumes of Faraday Discussions on our website.

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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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