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Call for papers: Solid-state NMR
14 October 2008
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 01 April 2009

Call for papers: Physical Chemistry of Biomolecular Motors and Machines
04 September 2008
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 15th Janaury 2008

Call for papers: Metal oxide nanostructures: synthesis, properties and applications
26 August 2008
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 01 December 2008

Call for papers: Physical Chemistry of Solids: The Science behind Materials Engineering
04 August 2008
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 12th December 2008

10th Anniversary Article: Electrodeposition of Ge, Si and SixGe1-x from an air- and water-stable ionic liquid
29 July 2008
Frank Endres and colleagues show that nanosized Si, Ge and, for the first time, SixGe1-x films can be made at room temperature by a relatively simple electrochemical process.
10th Anniversary Article: Ab initio large-amplitude quantum-tunneling dynamics in vinyl radical: a vibrationally adiabatic approach
15 July 2008
David Nesbitt and Feng Dong predict the tunneling dynamics of the vinyl radical, an important and ubiquitous combustion intermediate.

Call for papers: Molecules in Confined Spaces
14 July 2008
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 1st November 2008

10th Anniversary Article: Reversible molecular switch driven by excited-state hydrogen transfer
03 July 2008
Andrzej Sobolewski proposes an ultra-fast and photostable molecular photo-switch in his Communication.

Call for papers: Coarse grained modeling of soft condensed matter
23 June 2008
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 13th October 2008
PCCP's Impact Factor shows another impressive increase
18 June 2008
The latest citation data released by ISI show that PCCP's Impact Factor has risen by over 15%
10th Anniversary Article: Nature and magnitude of aromatic stacking of nucleic acid bases
11 June 2008
Pavel Hobza and colleagues summarise recent advances in quantum chemical calculations of base-stacking forces in nucleic acids.

Nanoscale structure and dynamics of DNA
16 May 2008
In this Perspective Catherine Murphy and colleagues investigate local structural variations and nanoscale motions in DNA

Hot Article: Photopolymerization of diacetylene-capped gold nanoparticles
10 April 2008
Giovanna Dellepiane talks about her latest PCCP paper.
Hot Article: 4D electron imaging: principles and perspectives
08 April 2008
In this perspective Ahmed Zewail and Dmitry Shorokhov highlight developments and concepts in the field of 4D electron imaging.
10th Anniversary Article: 70 years of Landau-Teller theory for collisional energy transfer
19 March 2008
Juergen Troe's Perspective article commemorates Landau and Tellers seminal work at its 70th anniversary.
10th Anniversary Article: Enhancement of the photocatalytic activity of titania through spatial structuring and particle size control
08 February 2008
Avelino Corma's Perspective article covers the important topic of photocatalysis.

PCCP author wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
11 October 2007
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl for 'his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces'

PCCP Prizes Awarded at ICEI 2007
26 July 2007
We're delighted to announce the winners of the latest PCCP Poster Prizes

PCCP Prize Awarded at COMET XX
01 July 2007
We're delighted to announce the winner of the latest PCCP Poster Prize

Fast publication in PCCP!
19 June 2007
A recent analysis of publication times shows that PCCP remains the quickest journal in its field.

PCCP Hot paper: Theory, measurements, and modeling of OH and HO2 formation in the reaction of cyclohexyl radicals with O2
11 June 2007
Craig Taatjes and co-workers construct a kinetic model to allow more accurate predictions of hydrocarbon ignition.


