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Hot Paper: Spectroscopic investigation of H atom transfer in a gas-phase dissociation reaction: McLafferty rearrangement of model gas-phase peptide ions.
16 May 2008
In this paper Van Stipdonk and co-workers present a study of the product ions generated following McLafferty-rearrangement of two model peptide systems.
Hot Article: A combined droplet train and ambient pressure photoemission spectrometer for the investigation of liquid/vapor interfaces
16 May 2008
Hendrik Bluhm talks about his new apparatus for investigating the chemistry of liquid/vapor interfaces

Hot Paper: Statistical modelling of NH+/ND+ + H2/HD/D2 branching ratios
16 May 2008
Terry Frankcombe tells PCCP about his 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.

Hot Paper: The excited states of pi-stacked 9-methyl adenine oligomers: a TD-DFT study in aqueous solution
17 January 2008
Hans Neusser tells PCCP about his hot paper
Hot Paper: Describing weak interactions of biomolecules with dispersion-corrected density functional theory
16 May 2008
In this paper Roethlisberger and Lin show that the DCACP approach reaches similar accuracy to high-level ab initio methods for noncovalent interaction energies of biomolecules

Hot Paper: The excited states of pi-stacked 9-methyl adenine oligomers: a TD-DFT study in aqueous solution
17 January 2008
Roberto Improta tells PCCP about his hot paper

Hot Paper: Adsorption of Fibrinogen on a Biomedical-grade Stainless Steel 316LVM Surface: A PM-IRRAS Study
17 January 2008
Sasha Omanovic tells PCCP about his hot paper

Hot Article: Photopolymerization of diacetylene-capped gold nanoparticles
10 April 2008
Giovanna Dellepiane talks about her latest PCCP paper.

Hot Paper: Oxidation and reactivity of nitrogen and phosphorus doped heterofullerenes
17 March 2008
Chris Ewels tells PCCP about this Communication

Hot Article: Oxygen diffusion in nanocrystalline yttria-stabilized zirconia: the effect of grain boundaries
02 April 2008
Roger De Souza talks about his latest PCCP paper.

Hot Article: Vibrational distribution in NO(X2) formed by self quenching of NO A 2+ (v = 0)
16 May 2008
Gus Hancock talks about his latest PCCP Communication.

Hot Article: First acid dissociation at an aqueous H2SO4 interface with sum frequency generation spectroscopy
02 April 2008
Takayuki Miyamae talks about his latest PCCP paper.
Hot Article: Textile electrodes as substrates for the electrodeposition of porous ZnO
26 March 2008
Derck Schlettwein and co-workers have used metal-coated polyamide threads and filaments as substrate electrodes to deposit highly porous ZnO films for photovoltaic application.
Hot Paper: Surface characterization of platinum electrodes
16 May 2008
In this Perspective Feliu and co-workers review different protocols in order to gain information about different surface sites on the surface of Pt nanoparticles.

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

Hot Paper: Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of mixed conductors under a chemical potential gradient: A case study of Pt|SDC|BSCF
17 January 2008
Sossina Haile discusses her latest PCCP paper
Hot Paper: "Imaging" Combustion Chemistry via Multiplexed Synchrotron-Photoionization Mass Spectrometry
17 January 2008
In this Perspective, Taatjes and co-workers offer an overview of flame chemistry and chemical kinetics measurements combining tunable photoionization with multiple-mass detection.

Hot Paper: Dynamic Imaging of Molecules using High Order Harmonic Generation
07 January 2008
Jon P Marangos tells PCCP about his Perspective Article

Hot Paper: Evidence of a water layer in solid-contact polymeric ion sensors
17 January 2008
Roland De Marco tells PCCP about his Communication

Hot Paper: The structure of protonated acetone and its dimer: Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy from 800 to 4000 cm-1
17 January 2008
Michael Duncan tells PCCP about his Communication

Hot Paper: Experimental and theoretical study of the microsolvation of sodium atoms in methanol clusters: Differences and similarities to sodium/water and sodium/ ammonia
17 January 2008
Thomas Zeuch talks about his latest PCCP paper
Hot Paper: Electronic spectra of radicals in a supersonic slit-jet discharge by degenerate and two-color four-wave mixing
17 January 2008
Maier et al. have used four-wave mixing techniques for the measurement of electronic transitions of cold transient species.
PCCP HOT papers published in 2007
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