Happy New Year to all our authors, readers and reviewers. This year sees some exciting developments for the journal as 2014 marks ChemComm's 50th anniversary. As well as celebrating this milestone with special activities and events, we are also delighted to reveal our new refreshed branding and article layout.
To celebrate this special year, we are planning a number of events including another UK-Brazil ChemComm Symposium, which is in follow-up to the successful 2012 symposia held in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The three day symposium will be on the topic of ‘Chemistry and Sustainable Energy’ and will take place across two UK cities, Belfast and Manchester, with a third potentially to be held in London.
We also plan to hold further ChemComm-RSC Prizes & Awards Symposia in association with RSC Divisions. Over the last two years we have held events at Imperial College London, University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. The symposium in Dublin hosted over 150 delegates for the one day event on supramolecular chemistry. We look forward to continuing these symposia within the chemical science community, both within the UK and overseas—so watch out for details on forthcoming events soon.
Speakers at the ChemComm–RSC Prizes & Awards Symposia held in Dublin, Ireland
Articles in ChemComm should report urgent, significant new research; which is why we ask our authors to use our article template with an aim to keep communications concise. It has become clear, with the increasing volume of literature, that authors are finding it difficult to include all the information they would like to within the three pages currently allowed for ChemComm communications. Therefore, where the editors consider it necessary, we now allow up to four pages for submissions to ChemComm. We still ask that our authors aim to keep their communications as succinct as possible, but hope that this new flexible approach will make things more straight forward. You can see full details in our Author Guidelines on our website. We are also delighted to announce that we now offer our authors unlimited colour, both online and in print, completely free of charge.
Title | Authors | DOI |
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Improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells toward the broader light harvesting of the solar spectrum | Suresh Kannan Balasingam, Minoh Lee, Man Gu Kang and Yongseok Jun | 10.1039/c2cc37616d |
Exploration of the medical periodic table: towards new targets | Nicolas P. E. Barry and Peter J. Sadler | 10.1039/c3cc41143e |
The chemistry of pristine graphene | Laura Rodríguez-Pérez, M. Ángeles Herranz and Nazario Martín | 10.1039/c3cc38950b |
Acid-degradable polymers for drug delivery: a decade of innovation | Sandra Binauld and Martina H. Stenzel | 10.1039/c2cc36589h |
Orthogonality in organic, polymer, and supramolecular chemistry: from Merrifield to click chemistry | Chun-Ho Wong and Steven C. Zimmerman | 10.1039/c2cc37316e |
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A seeded synthetic strategy for uniform polymer and carbon nanospheres with tunable sizes for high performance electrochemical energy storage | Jiasheng Qian, Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan, Pranav K. Tripathi, Dazhang Zhu, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen and Dominic S. Wright | 10.1039/c3cc41113c |
Efficient solar photoelectrosynthesis of methanol from carbon dioxide using hybrid CuO–Cu2O semiconductor nanorod arrays | Ghazaleh Ghadimkhani, Norma R. de Tacconi, Wilaiwan Chanmanee, Csaba Janaky and Krishnan Rajeshwar | 10.1039/c2cc38068d |
Switchable viscosity triggered by CO2 using smart worm-like micelles | Xin Su, Michael F. Cunningham and Philip G. Jessop | 10.1039/c3cc37816k |
Metal-free, highly efficient organocatalytic amination of benzylic C–H bonds | Qicai Xue, Jin Xie, Huamin Li, Yixiang Chenga and Chengjian Zhu | 10.1039/c3cc41558a |
Synthesis of MoS2 nanosheet–graphene nanosheet hybrid materials for stable lithium storage | Xiaosi Zhou, Li-Jun Wan and Yu-Guo Guo | 10.1039/c3cc38780a |
As part of our 50th volume celebrations this year we will award three ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships. The lectureship, which is awarded annually, recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. We receive a large volume of high calibre nominations and the lectureship has become very competitive. Last year saw the Editorial Board award two lectureships; the recipients were Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis) and Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London). The Editorial Board commended Louise's contributions to the field of synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry, and Marina was awarded the lectureship for her excellent work within biophysical chemistry. Louise and Marina will give their lecture tours in 2014, which will include Louise speaking at Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS 13) in Dublin in July.
Nominations for the 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship closes in December and the winner will be announced very soon.
2013 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships: Louise A. Berben and Marina Kuimova
ChemComm has a long history as a society journal and is proud to support the scientific community. We want ChemComm to be a community journal—in this vein, we are currently conducting an external review of the journal, to work with the community to help direct the future strategy of ChemComm, so it can be the journal you would like it to be. We will soon begin to solicit feedback through focus groups and questionnaires and we welcome your ideas for the journal. In the New Year we will also launch a ChemComm Community online—to allow emerging researchers to share ideas, ask questions and interact with our editors.
The journal continues to sponsor a variety of international meetings, as well as awarding prizes to some of the best up-and-coming new scientists across the world. In 2014, we will continue to attend international conferences, to ensure we are aware of the latest ‘hot’ topics and cutting-edge research. This is also a great opportunity to meet our authors, readers and referees, so if we are at a conference you're attending, please do come and say hello—we'd love to get your feedback on ChemComm.
Topics | Guest Editors |
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Microfluidics | Andy deMello, Florian Hollfelder and Klavs Jensen |
Mechanochemistry | Stuart James and Tomislav Friščić |
Medicinal inorganic chemistry | Mi Hee Lim, Seth Cohen and Amy Barrios |
Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution | Vincent Artero, Jim Muckerman and Fraser Armstrong |
Molecular spintronics | Daniel Gamelin, Martin Kirk and David Schultz |
Biological oxidation reactions | Wes Browne and Ebbe Nordlander |
CO2 separation, capture and reuse | Len Barbour and Mohamed Eddaoudi |
Structure and chemistry of materials from in situ electron microscopy | Franklin (Feng) Tao, Nigel Browning and Eric Stach |
The Editorial Office wants to make sure the work published in ChemComm has the highest visibility possible for our authors. We promote the latest high-quality research and news from the ChemComm blog and Twitter feed @ChemCommun—we encourage you to sign-up and follow our tweets today at http://twitter.com/ChemCommun.
We always welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions; please do contact us at ChemComm-RSC@rsc.org.
With our best wishes for the New Year,
Richard R. Schrock, Editorial Board Chair
Robert Eagling, Managing Editor
Jane Hordern, Deputy Editor
Philippa Ross, Senior Publishing Editor
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