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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


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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


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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


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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


Frank Endres

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.


David Nesbitt

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.


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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


Andrzej Sobolewski

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.


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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

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%


Pavel Hobza

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.


Part of an energy minimized molecular model of a 17-base-pair oligonucleotide

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


Schematic representation of gold nanoparticles capped with polymer

Hot Article: Photopolymerization of diacetylene-capped gold nanoparticles

10 April 2008

Giovanna Dellepiane talks about her latest PCCP paper.


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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.


Juergen Troe

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.


Avelino Corma

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.


David Husain

Dr David Husain 1937-2007

08 February 2008

In memoriam


Gerhard Ertl

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 Prize for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics

PCCP Prizes Awarded at ICEI 2007

26 July 2007

We're delighted to announce the winners of the latest PCCP Poster Prizes


PCCP Prize Certificate

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

Fast publication in PCCP!

19 June 2007

A recent analysis of publication times shows that PCCP remains the quickest journal in its field.


Theory, Measurements, and Modeling of OH and HO2 Formation in the Reaction of Cyclohexyl Radicals with O2

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.


Double-hybrid density functionals with long-range dispersion corrections: higher accuracy and extended applicability

PCCP Hot paper: Double-hybrid density functionals with long-range dispersion corrections: higher accuracy and extended applicability

07 June 2007

Stefan Grimme significantly improves the accuracy of Double-Hybrid Density Functionals and emphasises the role of dispersion interactions in large molecules.


PCCP prizes awarded at the Bunsentagung

PCCP Prizes Awarded at Bunsentagung 2007

04 June 2007

We're delighted to announce the winners of the latest PCCP Poster Prizes