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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

An international journal for the fastest publication of high-quality original work in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.



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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.


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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


Statistical modelling of NH+/ND+ + H2/HD/D2 branching ratios

Hot Paper: Statistical modelling of NH+/ND+ + H2/HD/D2 branching ratios

16 May 2008

Terry Frankcombe tells PCCP about his 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.


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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


The DCACP approach is shown to reach an accuracy comparable with high-level ab initio methods for noncovalent interaction energies of biomolecules.

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


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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


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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


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.


Oxidation and reactivity of nitrogen and phosphorus doped heterofullerenes

Hot Paper: Oxidation and reactivity of nitrogen and phosphorus doped heterofullerenes

17 March 2008

Chris Ewels tells PCCP about this Communication



NO X2pi emission spectrum

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.



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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.


The analysis of the voltammogram of clean platinum nanoparticles enables to discriminate between the contributions of the different surface sites.

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.


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

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



Tunable synchrotron photoionization coupled with multiple-mass detection offers a rich and detailed picture of flame chemistry and reaction kinetics.

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.


A strong laser field drives high momentum electrons that probe molecular structure with both sub-femtosecond temporal and sub-Angstrom spatial resolution.

Hot Paper: Dynamic Imaging of Molecules using High Order Harmonic Generation

07 January 2008

Jon P Marangos tells PCCP about his Perspective Article


Direct spectroscopic evidence finally proves the existence of a water layer in solid contact polymeric ion sensors, thereby paving the way for the creation of robust ion sensors.

Hot Paper: Evidence of a water layer in solid-contact polymeric ion sensors

17 January 2008

Roland De Marco tells PCCP about his Communication




The origin band of HC4S recorded by degenerate four-wave mixing in a supersonic slit-jet discharge.

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

In-depth articles & author interviews about very highly-rated PCCP papers published in 2007