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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

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

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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Most read articles in Faraday Discussions

03 Feb 2015

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

Find out which Faraday Discussions articles were attracting the most attention between October and December 2014.

Read on to find out which Faraday Discussions articles your colleagues were downloading most between October and December 2014.

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Following the formation of nanometer-sized clusters by time-resolved SAXS and EXAFS techniques
Florian Meneau, Gopinathan Sankar, Norberto Morgante, Rudolf Winter, C. Richard A. Catlow, G. Neville Greaves and John Meurig Thomas
Faraday Discuss., 2003, 122, 203-210
DOI: 10.1039/B203142F

Spontaneous tubulation of membranes and vesicles reveals membrane tension generated by spontaneous curvature
Reinhard Lipowsky
Faraday Discuss., 2013, 161, 305-331
DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20105D

Hydrogen evolution on nano-particulate transition metal sulfides
Jacob Bonde, Poul G. Moses, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov and Ib Chorkendorff
Faraday Discuss., 2009, 140, 219-231
DOI: 10.1039/B803857K

In situ Raman study of lithium-ion intercalation into microcrystalline graphite
Christopher Sole, Nicholas E. Drewett and Laurence J. Hardwick
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 172, 223-237
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00079J

Dynamics in next-generation solar cells: time-resolved surface photovoltage measurements of quantum dots chemically linked to ZnO (10 0)
Ben F. Spencer, Matthew J. Cliffe, Darren M. Graham, Samantha J. O. Hardman, Elaine A. Seddon, Karen L. Syres, Andrew G. Thomas, Fausto Sirotti, Mathieu G. Silly, Javeed Akhtar, Paul O’Brien, Simon M. Fairclough, Jason M. Smith, Swapan Chattopadhyay and Wendy R. Flavell
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 171, 275-298
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00019F

Molecular simulations and visualization: introduction and overview
Jonathan D. Hirst, David R. Glowacki and Marc Baaden
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 169, 9-22
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD90024C

Imaging molecular structure through femtosecond photoelectron diffraction on aligned and oriented gas-phase molecules
Rebecca Boll, Arnaud Rouzée, Marcus Adolph, Denis Anielski, Andrew Aquila, Sadia Bari, Cédric Bomme, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Henry N. Chapman, Lauge Christensen, Ryan Coffee, Niccola Coppola, Sankar De, Piero Decleva, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Frank Filsinger, Lutz Foucar, Tais Gorkhover, Lars Gumprecht, André Hömke, Lotte Holmegaard, Per Johnsson, Jens S. Kienitz, Thomas Kierspel, Faton Krasniqi, Kai-Uwe Kühnel, Jochen Maurer, Marc Messerschmidt, Robert Moshammer, Nele L. M. Müller, Benedikt Rudek, Evgeny Savelyev, Ilme Schlichting, Carlo Schmidt, Frank Scholz, Sebastian Schorb, Joachim Schulz, Jörn Seltmann, Mauro Stener, Stephan Stern, Simone Techert, Jan Thøgersen, Sebastian Trippel, Jens Viefhaus, Marc Vrakking, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Jochen Küpper, Joachim Ullrich, Artem Rudenko and Daniel Rolles
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 171, 57-80
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00037D

Oxygen reduction reaction by electrochemically reduced graphene oxide
Santosh Kumar Bikkarolla, Peter Cumpson, Paul Joseph and Pagona Papakonstantinou
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 173, 415-428
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00088A

Inkjet printing of graphene
Kirill Arapov, Robert Abbel, Gijsbertus de With and Heiner Friedrich
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 173, 323-336
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00067F

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy: new materials, concepts, characterization tools, and applications
Jon A. Dieringer, Adam D. McFarland, Nilam C. Shah, Douglas A. Stuart, Alyson V. Whitney, Chanda R. Yonzon, Matthew A. Young, Xiaoyu Zhang and Richard P. Van Duyne
Faraday Discuss., 2006, 132, 9-26
DOI: 10.1039/B513431P

Advances of carbon nanomaterials
Lulu Ma, Amelia H. C. Hart, Sehmus Ozden, Robert Vajtai and Pulickel M. Ajayan
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 173, 9-46
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD90039A

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Corrosion Chemistry – poster deadline

02 Feb 2015

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

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.

You can find out more about Faraday Discussions on our FAQs page.

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

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

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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Faraday Discussions Impact Factor is 4.19

08 Aug 2014

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

We are pleased to announce that the new Impact Factor* of Faraday Discussions is 4.19.

We were delighted to host Discussions in a variety of exciting areas over the last year – check out the associated Faraday Discussions volumes today:

Thanks to all our authors, speakers, readers, delegates, committee members and everyone else who has contributed to the continued success of Faraday Discussions.

We encourage you to get involved – register for one (or more!) of the excellent meetings still to come this year:

New Advances in Carbon Nanomaterials
1 – 3 September 2014, London, UK

Organic Photonics & Electronics
8 – 10 September 2014, Strathclyde, UK

Physical Chemistry of Functionalised Biomedical Nanoparticles
17 – 19 September 2014, Bristol, UK

Next-Generation Materials for Energy Chemistry
27 – 29 October 2014, Xiamen, China

Not able to join us this year? Find out more about the Faraday Discussions we have planned for 2015 and beyond..

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Read more about the 2013 Impact Factors from across RSC Publishing on the RSC Publishing Blog.

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data based on 2013 Journal Citation Reports^®, (Thomson Reuters, 2014).

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

07 Aug 2014

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

Join us in Bristol join us to discuss this exciting topic along with leading scientists including Paul Alivisatos, Hedi Mattoussi, Mostafa El-Sayed, Peter Dobson and many more…

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

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

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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Electrical component hitches a ride with mechanical support

02 Jul 2014

By Bethany Johnson.

Danielle Whittaker writes about a hot Faraday Discussions article for Chemistry Wordl

A new composite material that can simultaneously withstand mechanical loads and store electrical energy has been created by scientists in the UK and Belgium. Based on activated carbon fibres, the structural supercapacitor has been formed into a full-size car boot lid that can power LEDs.

Read the full article in Chemistry World»

Read the original article in Faraday Discussions – it’s free to access until 8th August:
FD 172: Multifunctional Structural Energy Storage Composite Supercapacitors
Natasha Shirshova, Hui Qian, Matthieu Houlle, Quentin Fontana, Joachim H G Steinke, Anthony R.J. Kucernak, Emile Greenhalgh, Alexander Bismarck and Milo Sebastian Peter Shaffer
Faraday Discuss., 2014, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00055B

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Nucleation: an article collection and an upcoming meeting

20 Jun 2014

By Bethany Johnson.

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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