Discussion summary and research papers, in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry.
Faraday Discussions news archive

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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
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

Faraday Discussion 140: Electrocatalysis - Theory and Experiment at the Interface
Registration now open for this international discussion meeting taking place in July 2008.

Free online access for new journal
29 January 2008
Registration will provide free institutional access to Energy & Environmental Science in 2008 and 2009

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.

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

New journal announced
26 November 2007
Summer 2008 will see Energy & Environmental Science launched by RSC Publishing

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'

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.

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

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

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.
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

Interview: Theoretically speaking
22 February 2007
David Clary talks molecular quantum dynamics with Hilary Crichton

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.

Celebrating 100 Years of Faraday Discussions
30 January 2007
100 years on Faraday Discussions are still going strong.

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.

