PCCP themed issues
PCCP publishes themed issues on subjects from right across the broad scope of the journal, each one dedicated to a topical area of research.
With high profile Guest Editors and contributions from leaders in the field, PCCP themed issues present a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in a particular research area.
Details of forthcoming and recently published themed issues can be found below.
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Forthcoming themed issues

Call for papers: Advances in Mass Spectrometry for Biological Science
22 January 2010
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 24 May 2010

Call for papers: Electrified Surface Chemistry
19 November 2009
PCCP announces a themed issue to follow the 1st Ertl Symposium on Electrochemistry and Catalysis

Call for papers: Bioelectrochemistry
28 October 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 26 April 2010

Call for papers: Water in Biological Systems
28 October 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 22 February 2010

Call for papers: Quantum Molecular Dynamics and Control
07 October 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 1 March 2010

Call for papers: Characterisation of Adsorbed Species
07 October 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue, Guest Edited by Carlos Otero Arean and Petr Nachtigall. Submission deadline: 14 January 2010

Call for papers: High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization - The Renaissance
22 September 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 1 February 2010

Call for papers: Supraparticle Physical Chemistry
17 September 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 5 April 2010

Call for papers: Electronic Energy Transfer
04 September 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue, Guest Edited by Anthony Harriman. Submission deadline: 15 February 2010

Call for papers: Solid State Structure Prediction
24 August 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 8 March 2010

Call for papers: Chemical Dynamics of Large Amplitude Motion
20 August 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue, Guest Edited by David Nesbitt and Martin Suhm. Submission deadline: 01 February 2010

Call for papers: Recent Developments in X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
13 August 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue. Submission deadline: 14 December 2009

Call for papers: Molecular Mechanisms of the Photostability of Life
15 July 2009
Submit your best work to the latest in a series of PCCP themed issues on topical areas of biophysics and biophysical chemistry. Submission deadline: 01 December 2009

Call for papers: Biomolecular Structures: From Isolated Molecules to Living Cells
15 July 2009
Submit your best work to this high profile PCCP themed issue - one of a series of issues on biophysics and biophysical chemistry. Submission deadline: 16 November 2009
Previous themed issues
Issue 45, 2009 (
Physical chemistry of aerosols
Issue 36, 2009 (
New frontiers in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
Issue 34, 2009 (
Issue 32, 2009 (
Modern EPR spectroscopy: beyond the EPR spectrum
Issue 31, 2009 (
Nanophotonics: plasmonics and metal nanoparticles
Issue 28, 2009 (
Physical chemistry of biomolecular motors and machines
Issue 24, 2009 (
Electronic structures and reaction dynamics of open-shell species
Issue 23, 2009 (
Time-dependent density-functional theory
Issue 22, 2009 (
Chemistry and physics of metal oxide nanostructures
Issue 19, 2009 (
Physical chemistry of solids-the science behind materials engineering
Issue 17, 2009 (
Issue 16, 2009 (
Coarse-grained modeling of soft condensed matter
Issue 12, 2009 (
Electrocatalysis: theory and experiment at the interface
Explicit-r12 correlation methods and local correlation methods
Analysis, manipulation, and simulation on the nanoscale
Colloidal particles at liquid interfaces
Spectroscopic probes of molecular recognition
Synergies between experimental and theoretical studies of gas phase reactions
Bridging the pressure and material gap in heterogeneous catalysis
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