Journal of Materials Chemistry celebrates its 250th issue later this month. The issue, due to be published on 20th July 2006, sees this class-leading journal reach yet another noteworthy milestone. During its 16 years of publication there have been many exciting developments in the field of materials chemistry, with three Nobel Prizes awarded to pioneers in the field, and the emergence of new areas of research such as biomaterials and nanotechnology. The journal has continually changed with the times and responded to the needs of the community; last year it became the first weekly journal dedicated to materials chemistry bringing you the latest research faster than ever before. The quality and scope of the journal have also made quite an impact. A future issue on molecular magnetic materials, builds upon the journal's highly regarded selection of highly focussed theme issues; the first, looking at computer modelling, was published in 1994 and was guest edited by Richard Catlow of the Royal Institution, London. Journal of Materials Chemistry has also been warmly supported by the materials community and enjoyed particularly close links with the Materials Discussions and Materials Chemistry conferences.

'We would like to thank our readers, referees and authors for their instrumental part in making each of these 250 issues' say chair of the editorial board, Maurizio Prato, and editor, Carol Stanier, in the 250th issue editorial, 'to celebrate this great achievement and to thank our readership for their support, we are delighted to be making the 250th free to access for all, until 31st August 2006.'

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Delegates at the Bunsentagung 2006 meeting held in Erlangen on May 25-27 joined the editorial staff 

Over the coming months PCCP will publish a timely series of themed issues on nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Nanotechnologies are widely seen as having huge potential in diverse areas from healthcare to energy storage, with experimental developments being driven by pressing demands for new technological applications. In this special PCCP series Guest Editors Phil Bartlett (Southampton, UK), Tim Jones (Imperial, UK) and Paul Mulvaney (Melbourne, Australia) deliver a superb mix of urgent communications, full research papers and key reviews focusing on the physico-chemical aspects of nanoscience. Published in selected printed issues of PCCP (starting this month) and collected together on a dedicated webpage, explore the exciting and expanding world of nanoscience and nanotechnology with PCCP.

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Downloadable ChemDraw files and links to databases including PubChem are among the additional online features on offer to authors and readers of Molecular BioSystems.

The journal, which publishes at the interface between chemistry and biology, has recently celebrated a successful first year of publication.

It also boasts rapid publication times, RSS feeds, graphical abstracts for Advance Articles and Table of Contents lists as well as other features and benefits associated with RSC journals.

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