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PCCP 10th Anniversary Articles



2008 marks the 10th year of publication of PCCP. In celebration of the journal's decade of success we will be highlighting a series of 10 specially selected articles written by authors who have contributed significantly to the journal over the years. 

The highlighted articles will be Perspective articles or regular papers covering the broad range of the journal's scope.  The articles will be free to acces for a limited time.

Read more about our selected articles and their eminent authors as this page is updated throughout 2008.

 


Alain Fuchs

10th Anniversary Article: Thermodynamics of water intrusion in nanoporous hydrophobic solids

20 January 2009

Alain Fuchs and collegues describe the behaviour of water confined within the nanopores of hydrophobic zeolites.


Richard Zare

10th Anniversary Article: Time-dependent depolarization of aligned HD molecules

18 December 2008

Richard Zare, Andrew Alexander, Peter Rakitzis and colleagues explore when nuclear spin matters and when it can be ignored.


Pablo Etchegoin

10th Anniversary Article: A perspective on single molecule SERS: current status and future challenges

15 December 2008

Pablo Etchegoin and Eric Le Ru present an overview of current research in single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman scattering.


Rob Hillman

10th Anniversary Article: Viscoelastic characterization of benzo-crown ether functionalized electroactive films

11 December 2008

Rob Hillman and collegues combine serval techniques to study electroactive films functionalised with crown ether ligands.


Frank Endres

10th Anniversary Article: Electrodeposition of Ge, Si and SixGe1-x from an air- and water-stable ionic liquid

29 July 2008

Frank Endres and colleagues show that nanosized Si, Ge and, for the first time, SixGe1-x films can be made at room temperature by a relatively simple electrochemical process.


David Nesbitt

10th Anniversary Article: Ab initio large-amplitude quantum-tunneling dynamics in vinyl radical: a vibrationally adiabatic approach

15 July 2008

David Nesbitt and Feng Dong predict the tunneling dynamics of the vinyl radical, an important and ubiquitous combustion intermediate.


Andrzej Sobolewski

10th Anniversary Article: Reversible molecular switch driven by excited-state hydrogen transfer

03 July 2008

Andrzej Sobolewski proposes an ultra-fast and photostable molecular photo-switch in his Communication.


Pavel Hobza

10th Anniversary Article: Nature and magnitude of aromatic stacking of nucleic acid bases

11 June 2008

Pavel Hobza and colleagues summarise recent advances in quantum chemical calculations of base-stacking forces in nucleic acids.


Juergen Troe

10th Anniversary Article: 70 years of Landau-Teller theory for collisional energy transfer

19 March 2008

Juergen Troe's Perspective article commemorates Landau and Tellers seminal work at its 70th anniversary.


Avelino Corma

10th Anniversary Article: Enhancement of the photocatalytic activity of titania through spatial structuring and particle size control

08 February 2008

Avelino Corma's Perspective article covers the important topic of photocatalysis.