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Faraday Discussions

Discussion summary and research papers, in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.



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Faraday Discussion 144: Multiscale Modelling of Soft Matter

25 February 2009

Forthcoming meeting: Registration now open for this meeting taking place in Groningen in July 2009. Early booking and poster abstract deadline - 22 May 2009


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Faraday Discussion 143: Soft Nanotechnology

16 February 2009

Forthcoming meeting: Speakers include Richard A L Jones (Sheffield) and George Whitesides (Harvard). Early booking and poster deadline - 14 April 2009.


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Faraday Discussion 145: Physical Organic Chemistry

17 September 2008

Submit an abstract for your chance to present your work at the conference in September 2009 and be published in Faraday Discussions. Deadline - 3 October 2008.


Transition metal dopant encapsulated in a 16 atom gold cation cluster: smashing alloy clusters with laser light evidences enhanced stability of closed shell species.

Faraday Discussion 139: The Importance of Polymer Science for Biological Systems

04 September 2008

Faraday Discussion 139 took place at the University of York in the UK, from 26-28 March 2008. Read interviews about the HOT articles from this discussion.


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Artificial cells seek out disease

30 July 2008

Scientists in the US have made an artificial cell that can locate sites of disease within the body


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Faraday Discussion 141: Water - From Interfaces to the Bulk

05 June 2008

Registration now open for this meeting taking place in August 2008. Poster presentation abstract deadline 27 June 2008


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Faraday Discussion 142: Cold and Ultracold Molecules

12 May 2008

Submit an abstract for your chance to present your work at the meeting(April 2009, Durham, UK) and be published in Faraday Discussions. Deadline - 20 June 2008


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Faraday Discussions Impact Factor increases again

18 June 2008

The latest citation data released by ISI shows an increase for the Impact Factor of Faraday Discussions again


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Faraday Discussion 140: Electrocatalysis - Theory and Experiment at the Interface

Registration now open for this international discussion meeting taking place in July 2008.


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Free online access for new journal

29 January 2008

Registration will provide free institutional access to Energy & Environmental Science in 2008 and 2009


Transition metal dopant encapsulated in a 16 atom gold cation cluster: smashing alloy clusters with laser light evidences enhanced stability of closed shell species.

Faraday Discussion 138: Nanoalloys: From Theory to Application

24 January 2008

Faraday Discussion 138 took place in Birmingham from 3 - 5 September 2007. Read interviews about the HOT articles from the discussion.


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Faraday Discussion 139: The Importance of Polymer Science for Biological Systems

03 October 2007

Registration now open for this international discussion meeting taking place in March 2008


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New journal announced

26 November 2007

Summer 2008 will see Energy & Environmental Science launched by RSC Publishing


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PCCP author wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

11 October 2007

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl for 'his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces'


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Faraday Discussion 137: The Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Microparticles

18 October 2007

Faraday Discussion 137 took place in Bristol from 2 - 4 July 2007. Read interviews about the HOT articles from the discussion.


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Vibrational exciton coupling in pure and composite sulfur dioxide aerosols

23 August 2007

Ruth Signorell and Martin Jetzki exploit vibrational dynamics to characterize the properties of pure and composite sulfur dioxide aerosol particles


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Understanding hygroscopic growth and phase transformation of aerosols using single particle Raman spectroscopy in an electrodynamic balance

23 August 2007

Chan et al. demonstrate how Raman spectroscopic analysis helps understand the hygroscopic behavior of levitated particles


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Crystals as genes?

16 July 2007

The hypothesis that crystals could have been primitive genetic materials has been put to the test by US scientists.


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Faraday Discussions Impact Factor increases again!

25 June 2007

The latest citation data released by ISI shows a big increase for the Impact Factor and Immediacy Index of Faraday Discussions again


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Interview: Theoretically speaking

22 February 2007

David Clary talks molecular quantum dynamics with Hilary Crichton


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Faraday Discussion 135: Chemical Concepts from Quantum Mechanics

02 November 2006

Faraday Discussion 135 took place at the University of Manchester from 4 - 6 September 2006.


Michael Faraday 100 years of discussions

Celebrating 100 Years of Faraday Discussions

30 January 2007

100 years on Faraday Discussions are still going strong.


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Faraday Discussion 134: Atomic Transport and Defect Phenomena in Solids

Faraday Discussion 134 took place at the University of Surrey in Guildford from 10 - 12 July 2006.


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Faraday Discussion 133: Chemical Evolution of the Universe

Faraday Discussion 133 took place in St Jacut de la Mer, Brittany, France from 24 - 26 April 2006. Read interviews about the HOT articles from the discussion.