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PCCP HOT papers published in 2007
PCCP hot papers featured in this section have been rated as "outstanding" by expert reviewers in the field. Follow each link for an interview with the authors or access to the article.
PCCP Hot Paper: Stepwise Interfacial Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles via Specific DNA Pairing
29 May 2007
Dayang Wang talks about the stepwise interfacial self-assembly of different inorganic nanoparticles via DNA base pairing at water/oil interfaces.
Hot Paper: Water-in-carbon dioxide emulsions stabilized with hydrophobic silica particles.
08 November 2007
In this article, Johnston and co-workers discuss water-in-carbon dioxide emulsions stabilized with hydrophobic silica particles.
Hot Paper: Effect of electric-field-induced capillary attraction on the motion of particles at an oil-water interface
14 September 2007
Peter Kralchevsky tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: The effect of parity violation on kinetic models of enantioselective autocatalysis
11 October 2007
Gabor Lente tells PCCP about this Hot Article
Hot Paper: Structural characterization of an anhydrous polymorph of paclitaxel by solid-state NMR
10 October 2007
David Grant tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Frequency-dependent response properties and excitation energies from one-electron density matrix functionals
23 July 2007
Katarzyna Pernal tells PCCP about this Hot Article
PCCP Hot Paper: On the position of the potential wall in DFT temporary anion calculations
24 September 2007
David Tozer and co-workers demonstrate that a very simple DFT scheme can provide orbitals, electron density, and other properties of a temporary anion from a single calculation wi...
PCCP Hot Paper: On the origin of the forward peak and backward oscillations in the F + H2(v = 0) to HF(v' = 2) + H reaction
Sokolovski et al apply a semiclassical complex angular momentum analysis to the F + H2(v = 0) to HF(v' = 2) + H reaction
Hot Paper: Hot filament chemical vapour deposition of diamond ultramicroelectrodes
15 August 2007
John Foord tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Solvent effects and hydration of a tripeptide in sodium halide aqueous solutions: an in silico study
30 July 2007
Maxim Fedorov tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Effect of confinement on ionic liquids dynamics in monolithic silica ionogels: 1H NMR study
30 August 2007
Jean Le Bideau tells PCCP about this Hot Article
Hot Paper: Theory and computation of nuclear magnetic resonance parameters
06 July 2007
Juha Vaara tells PCCP about this Hot Article
PCCP Hot paper: Non-covalent interactions in biomacromolecules
18 June 2007
Pavel Hobza describes the role of H-bonding and stacking interactions in the stabilisation of DNA, oligopeptides and proteins.
Hot Paper: A near-IR emitting Bodipy-based dye fitted with ancillary light harvesting units
25 July 2007
Professor Harriman tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Generation of one light-induced metastable nitrosyl linkage isomer in [Pt(NH3)4Cl(NO)]Cl2 in the red spectral range
25 July 2007
Dominik Schaniel tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Solid-state NMR of endohedral hydrogen-fullerene complexes
12 July 2007
Professor Levitt tells PCCP about this Hot Article
Hot Paper: Formation and properties of metal clusters isolated in helium droplets
12 July 2007
Dr Tiggesbaumker tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Intramolecular recognition in a jet-cooled short peptide chain: gamma-turn helicity probed by a neighbouring residue
20 June 2007
Dr Michel Mons tells PCCP about this Hot Article
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.
PCCP Hot Paper: Nanotribology under Electrochemical Conditions: Influence of a Copper (Sub)Monolayer Deposited on Single Crystal Electrodes on Friction Forces Studied with Atomic Force Microscopy
29 October 2007
Baltruschat and Nielinger describe for the first time the influence of potential and adsorbates on friction forces under electrochemical conditions
PCCP Hot paper: Extended Förster theory for determining intraprotein distances: 2. An accurate analysis of fluorescence depolarisation experiments
11 June 2007
Lennart Johannson uses extended Förster theory for the quantitative determination of the intramolecular distances in proteins.
PCCP Hot paper: Bridging the pressure and material gap in heterogeneous catalysis
13 April 2007
Heiko Oosterbeek reports on the use of surface science techniques to investigate model catalysts and their performance in the Fischer-Tropsch reaction.
PCCP Hot paper: The evolution of model catalytic systems; studies of structure, bonding and dynamics from single crystal metal surfaces to nanoparticles, and from low pressure (<10-3 Torr) to high pressure (>10-3 Torr) to liquid interfaces
09 July 2007
Gabor Somorjai et al. review the development of experimental techniques and evolution of the model systems for studying heterogeneous catalysis.
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 Hot paper: Reactions of sulfur dioxide on calcium carbonate single crystal and particle surfaces
01 March 2007
Vicki Grassian and colleagues look at the role water plays on the attack of calcium carbonate surfaces by sulfur dioxide.
PCCP Hot paper: Surface Studies of Gas Sensing Metal Oxides
21 February 2007
Matthias Batzill and Ulrike Diebold discuss surface reduction processes and the interaction of oxygen with gas sensing metal oxide surfaces.
PCCP Hot paper: New theoretical investigations of the photodissociation of ozone in the Hartley, Huggins, Chappuis, and Wulf bands
15 March 2007
Reinhard Schinke et al review the combined electronic structure and quantum dynamical studies for all four absorption bands of ozone.
PCCP Hot paper: Quintuple-zeta quality coupled-cluster correlation energies with triple-zeta basis sets
26 February 2007
Wim Klopper and colleagues present a new coupled-cluster method that can be used to investigate larger systems than conventional methods.
PCCP Hot paper: Fructose/dioxygen biofuel cell based on direct electron transfer-type bioelectrocatalysis
12 February 2007
Kenji Kano et al. construct a direct electron transfer-type one-compartment biofuel cell with a maximum power density of about 1 mW cm-2
PCCP Hot paper: Molecular ordering in a biaxial smectic-A phase studied by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM)
Hegmann and Kaznacheev demonstrate that scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) can contribute to and enhance our understanding of liquid crystal film textures.
PCCP Hot paper: Probing dynamics of complex molecular systems with ultrafast 2D IR vibrational echo spectroscopy
21 February 2007
Michael Fayer describes the method and applications of ultrafast 2D-IR vibrational echo spectroscopy.
Hot Paper: Cu/ZnO and Cu/ZrO2 interactions studied by contact angle measurement with TEM
07 February 2007
Igor Kasatkin tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Appearance of intramolecular high-frequency vibrations in two-dimensional, time-integrated three-pulse photon echo data
06 December 2006
Benjamin Dietzek tells PCCP about his Hot Article
Hot Paper: Can the DFT-D method describe the full range of noncovalent interactions found in large biomolecules?
06 December 2006
Ian Hillier tells PCCP about his Hot Article
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