Call for papers

Offers of abstracts for oral presentation within any of the themes listed on the introduction page are now invited. Abstracts for oral presentations should be sent by email attachment to RSC Conferences with the following subject header: 'FD144 oral abstract'. Submitting authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process within about a month of the submission deadline.

The abstracts should be no longer than one A4 page in portrait layout. Please include your full address and contact details in the email and indicate that you are submitting an abstract for oral presentation.

For more information please see guidelines for submitting an abstract.

Key dates

Oral presentation abstract deadline	19 September 2008
Full papers received from authors	23 January 2009
Poster presentation abstract deadline	22 May 2009
Pre-prints to delegates	22 June 2009

 

How it works - abstracts and pre-prints

Abstracts that fit most closely with the themes of the meeting will be selected for oral presentations. Authors of the selected abstracts will then be invited to submit their work as a full paper, which will form the basis of their short presentation at the meeting. The paper itself must contain new, unpublished work and be submitted by Friday 23 January 2009. The papers selected for presentation and discussion will be refereed and then sent to all participants as preprints.

Preprints will be issued four weeks in advance of the meeting. The Discussion will be conducted on the assumption that the papers have been read in advance and only five minutes will be allowed for each presentation. Most of the time will be devoted to discussion, which is then submitted for publication in the Faraday Discussion Volume which will be published by the RSC about six months after the meeting.

The latest ISI citation data give an impact factor for Faraday Discussions of 5.0, emphasising their importance as a forum for developing exciting new ideas.

Faraday Discussion Volume

The Faraday Discussion Volume documents a long-established series of Faraday Discussion meetings which provide a unique international forum for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The papers presented are published in the Faraday Discussion Volume together with a record of the discussion contributions made at the meeting. Faraday Discussions therefore provide an important record of current international knowledge and views in the field concerned.