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Section Board for 'Physical Chemistry' (81)
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Interests: biophysical characterization of nano-self-assemblies, cubosomes, hexosomes; nanodispersions of inverse non-lamellar liquid crystalline phases; drug and functional food soft self-assembled nanocarriers; lyotropic liquid crystalline phases; microemulsions
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Special Issue in Molecules: 25th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Physical Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: Microfluidics in Physical Chemistry Research Areas: Current Status and Recent Advances

Interests: physical chemistry and chemical physics; computational and theoretical chemistry; molecular spectroscopy; computational drug design; organic semiconductor solar cell design

Interests: organic electronics; energy materials and devices; polymer science and technology
Interests: electron paramagnetic resonance; molecular magnetism; metal-organic frameworks; ionic liquids; spin-labelled biomolecules; spin chemistry; photochemistry
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Interests: EPR spectroscopy; spin labels; electron resonance
Interests: electrochemistry; surface grafting; ionic liquid; scanning electrochemical microscopy; electrocatalysis
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Interests: biopharmaceutics; polymeric nanoparticles; metal nanoparticles; liposomes; surface engineering of nanostructures; development and characterisation of nanomedicine; complement activation; controlled release solid dosage forms; transdermal drug delivery systems
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Interests: NMR spectroscopy; physics of complex systems; aqueous systems; dynamical arrest; protein folding/unfolding; cellulose degradation; metabolomics
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Special Issue in Molecules: Physical Chemistry of Aqueous Solutions and Glass Forming Systems
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Molecular Structure and Dynamics Probed by Spectroscopic Techniques and Computational Approaches: New Trends by NMR, FTIR, Neutron Scattering and Simulation
Special Issue in Molecules: Hybrid Compounds Tailoring at the Nanoscale for Biomedical Applications
Special Issue in Chemistry: Hybrid Compounds Tailoring at the Nanoscale for Biomedical Applications

Interests: nonhomogeneous catalysis; theoretical chemistry; gases adsorption; computational chemistry; reaction mechanisms
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Special Issue in Molecules: Transition Metal Compounds: Challenges and Breakthrough

Interests: nanochemistry; sol-gel chemistry; organometallic chemistry; catalysis; green chemistry; micro- and nanoencapsulation
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Bridging Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Magnetic Nanoparticles: Novel Synthesis Methods and Applications
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Mesoporous Silica and Organosilica Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Special Issue in Molecules: Microfluidics in Physical Chemistry Research Areas: Current Status and Recent Advances

Interests: laser physics and applications; photoacoustic spectroscopy sensing; optical spectroscopy; laser photoacoustic spectroscopy device development; oxidative stress and biomarkers; analysis of gases
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Special Issue in Foundations: Infrared Spectroscopy: Principles and Instrumentation
Special Issue in Materials: Advanced Materials for Remediation of Environmental Pollutants
Special Issue in Molecules: 2nd Edition: Applications of Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

Interests: chemical and solution thermodynamics; solute transfer properties; phase equilibria

Interests: ultrafast spectroscopy; photovoltaics; semiconductor nanocrystals; photocatalysis; nonlinear optics; optical imaging

Interests: lipid polymorphism; lipid cubic phases; non-lamellar lipid phases; lipid nanoparticles; protein crystallization; kinetics of crystal growth; kinetics of phase transitions; liquid crystals; time resolved X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS); X-ray powder diffraction; pump-probe and stop-flow kinetics; membrane biophysics

Interests: lipid/protein nanoassemblies; liquid crystalline phases; cubosomes; self-assembled nanostructures and nanoparticles with neuroprotective properties; protein and peptide-based nanomedicines; nanocarriers for macromolecular drug delivery; membrane receptor nanoscale organization; lipids; peptides; BDNF; cyclodextrin; soft nanomaterials
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Special Issue in Molecules: Advanced Self-Assembled Nanostructures
Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Progress in Pharmaceutical Applications of Lipid-Based Nanoparticles
Special Issue in Molecules: Women in Physical Chemistry
Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Self-Assembly, Synthetic and Biomimetic Nanostructures

Interests: tautomerism; proton transfer; hydrogen bonding; molecular switches; molecular sensors; dye chemistry; solvent effect; photo-, halo- and thermochromism; optical spectroscopy; computational chemistry; photochemistry
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Interests: theoretical/computational chemistry

Interests: fluorescence and phosphorescence; molecular luminescence; optical sensing; TADF and OLEDs; fullerenes; carbon dots; supramolecular assemblies
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Interests: electrostatics and statistical physics of biological macromolecules and membranes; charge determination of nanoparticles; microbial adhesion to material surfaces; separation chemistry
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Special Issue in Molecules: Charged Spherical Nanoparticles in the Vicinity of Charged Surfaces
Special Issue in Coatings: Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Coatings

Interests: lipid; lipid-protein interactions; biomembranes; self-assembly; neutron scattering; QCM-D; AFM; ellipsometry

Interests: photocatalysis; solar energy conversion; water splitting; hydrogen evolution reaction; CO2 reduction; 2D nanomaterials

Interests: luminescent transition metal complexes; boron compounds; organic light emitting diodes

Interests: quantum chemistry; computational chemistry; foundations of quantum mechanics
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Interests: computational chemistry; reaction kinetics and dynamics; gas-phase reactivity; solvation; solvent effects; reactions in solution

Interests: biological molecules in the gas-phase; gaseous ions; laser spectroscopy; molecular clusters; photoionization spectroscopy; computational chemistry; electron-molecule scattering; molecular anions; nucleobase photophysics; collision-induced dissociation; photodegradation
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Special Issue in Molecules: Photoactive Biological Molecules

Interests: solid state NMR; disordered materials; oxide-based glasses; glass structure; bioactive glasses; biomineralization; molecular dynamics simulations; spin dynamics simulations; rf-pulse sequence design in magic-angle spinning NMR
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Interests: molecular reaction dynamics; molecular beams; electron spectroscopy; ion imaging; electron-ion coincidence; atmospheric chemistry; astrochemistry; catalysis
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Interests: physical organic chemistry; analytical chemistry; lewis basicity; gas-phase basicity; mass spectrometry; ion/molecule reactions

Interests: relaxation processes in complex liquids; structure and thermodynamics of liquids confined and under extreme conditions; water under extreme conditions (confined, supercooled, under pressure, supercritical); aqueous solutions, Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo methods,; slow dynamics and glass transition, cryopreservation

Interests: statistical thermodynamics of polymers; polymer conformations and dynamics; branched polymers and dendrimers; molecular dynamics simulations; protein adsorption on biomaterials and nanomaterials; modeling of surface physisorption; molecular recognition with host-guest complexes
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Interests: Quantum Chemical Topological (QCT) methods and development of SW for their implementation for molecular and condensed phase systems and for ab-initio and X-ray derived electron densities; Development of new chemical bonding descriptors in real space, like the Source Function; extension of Non-Covalent Interactions Reduced Density Gradient approach to X-ray derived experimental electronic densities in crystals; development of QCT methods for spin polarized systems and for electron spin density topology; applications of QCT methods to material science (thermoelectric materials, phase change materials, lithium batteries, etc.); application of QCT methods to exotic bonding in systems under pressure; modern revisitation of Pauling's bond valence model and applications
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Interests: atmospheric chemistry; aerosols; kinetics; spectroscopy; environmental catalysis
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Interests: the fuzziness of the molecular world; chemical artificial intelligence; complex systems; systems chemistry; natural computing; neuromorphic engineering; computing by molecules; fuzzy logic; binary logic; oscillating reactions; hydrodynamics; chaos
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Special Issue in AI: AI in Drug Design
Special Issue in Molecules: Cutting-Edge Physical Chemistry Research in Europe

Interests: Ionic liquids; protic ionic liquids; self-assembly; SAXS; liquid crystals; high throughput
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Interests: inorganic chemistry; functional materials; crystallography; Raman spectroscopy; infrared spectroscopy; phase transitions; high-pressure synthesis

Interests: electronic structure theory; multireference perturbation theory; embedding; excited electronic states; strong correlation
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Interests: nano-delivery of bioactive compounds; nano-functional foods; synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials; lipid nanoparticles; nanoemulsions

Interests: biological soft matter; protein and lipid biomaterials; X-ray scattering; liquid crystals; protein aggregation; enzyme activity and kinetics; nanoconfinement; crystallization; drug-delivery and diagnostics
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Interests: conducting polymers; electronic structure; fullerenes and carbon nanotubes; aromaticity; high pressure effects in organics; vibrational spectra; carbon phases; pi-stacking; unusual pi-conjugation
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Interests: nanoparticle synthesis; plasmonic nanoparticles; polymer; colloids; photochemistry; electrochemistry
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Interests: colloids; surfaces; adsorption; electric double layer; surfactants; polymers
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Interests: chemical kinetics and thermodynamics; plasma chemistry; nanoparticles from supercritical solutions; luminescent probes; laser chemistry

Interests: NMR; IR/Raman; spectroscopy; theoretical modeling; nanotechnology; anticancer and antibacterial drugs
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Special Issue in Molecules: Featured Reviews in Applied Chemistry
Special Issue in Molecules: A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor John Pople

Interests: protein folding-misfolding and aggregation; lyotropic liquid crystals – model membrane; methods: experimental and computer simulations
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Interests: nanoparticles and metal-organic frameworks; self-organization and self-assembly in chemical systems; pattern formation; reaction-diffusion systems

Interests: supercapacitor; pseudocapacitive materials; electrodeposition

Interests: theoretical chemistry; computational chemistry; photochemistry; photobiology; chemical structure; spectroscopy; dynamics

Interests: physical chemistry; supramolecular chemistry; specific ion effects; soft matter; complex fluids; nanoscience and nanotechnology; formulations; gels; molecular liquids

Interests: chiroptical spectroscopies; vibrational circular dichroism; raman optical activity; electronic circular dichroism; circularly polarized luminescence; density functional theory; molecular dynamics

Interests: molecular spectroscopy; rotational spectra; physical chemistry; hydrogen bonding; laser ablation; supersonic jets; molecular complexes; microsolvation; biomolecules; quantum mechanics

Interests: computational biophysics; computational chemistry; structural bioinformatics
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Topical Collection in Biophysica: Feature Papers in Biophysics

Interests: chemical kinetics; computational chemistry; combustion & atmospheric chemistry; short-lived intermediates
Interests: theoretical chemistry and biochemistry; electronic structure; mitochondrial biophysics; theoretical biophysics
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Interests: molecular modeling and simulation; theoretical photophysics and photochemistry; time resolved spectroscopy; non-adiabatic phenomena; structural biophysics; DNA photosensitization; DNA lesions and repair mechanism; epigenetic regulations
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Interests: molecular simulation of fluids; equations of state; SAFT; adsorption and interfacial properties; crude oils & shales; machine learning in physical property prediction
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Interests: chemical bonding theory; quantum chemical topology; simulation of materials; matter at high pressure; methods in theoretical chemistry
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Interests: excited states; quantum dynamics; time-resolved spectroscopy; X-ray spectroscopy; nonadiabatic coupling; organic electronics

Interests: physical chemistry; photochemistry; computational chemistry; infrared spectroscopy; matrix isolation; flash vacuum pyrolysis; reactive intermediates; quantum mechanical tunneling; vibrationally induced chemistry
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Interests: molecular dynamics simulations; computer simulations; peptide and protein dynamics; folding; peptide stability in non-aqueous solvent; molecular docking methods; parallel computing; force field of small molecules; properties of ions and small molecules in solutions; simulation of inorganic compounds; statistical mechanics; XANES and EXAFS spectroscopy; FRET and time-resolved spectroscopy of biological molecules; nanomaterial (CNT, nanoparticles, graphene); the interaction of polymers with biomolecules
Interests: non-covalent interactions; hydrogen bonding; structural and conformational determination; rotational spectroscopy; computational chemistry; molecular clusters
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Interests: physical chemistry; computational/theoretical chemistry

Interests: noncovalent bonds with particular emphasis on H-bonds and proton transfers occurring within them, halogen, chalcogen, pnicogen, and tetrel bonds; the applications of these bonds to biochemical structure and function is of special interest
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Special Issue in Molecules: Tetrel Bonds
Special Issue in Molecules: Spectroscopic Aspects of Noncovalent Interactions
Special Issue in Molecules: Chemical Bond and Intermolecular Interactions
Interests: gas-phase biomolecules; biomolecular radiation damage; astrochemistry; mass spectrometry; synchroton radiation; X-ray spectroscopy; proteins; DNA; PAHs

Interests: gene delivery; lipid-nucleic acid nanoassemblies; surfactant and lipid self-assembly; phase behaviour of therapeutically relevant materials; microfluidics; small-angle scattering (SAXS and SANS); fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy; soft matter; nanomedicine; physical chemistry; colloidal science
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Interests: supramolecular chemistry; photochemistry; molecular machines; photochromic systems

Interests: atomic and molecular spectroscopy; electronic structure; synchrotron radiation; free electron laser; molecular chirality; ARPES; XPS; XAS; NEXAFS; TPES; TPEPICO; PECD; 3D TOF ion imaging; free radicals; shot-lived species; MW plasmas; jet sources
Interests: heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy; HPLC separation methods; structure elucidation; NMR metabolomics; X-ray structure analysis
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Interests: aqueous colloids; adsorption; surface charging; colloidal stability; magnetic nanoparticles; clay minerals; oxides; polyelectrolytes; humic acids; soils

Interests: physical supramolecular chemistry; thermodynamics and kinetics of coordination reactions; solvation phenomena; electrolyte solutions; chemometrics
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Interests: ab initio; DFT; modeling; magnetic clusters
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Interests: electronic structure theory; computational spectroscopy; density functional theory; reaction path modeling

Interests: qm/mm simulations; reaction dynamics; enzymatic catalysis; computational biochemistry; free energy calculations
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Interests: colloidal plasma; gas-discharge plasma; cryogenic colloidal systems; plasma medicine; experimental technique
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Special Issue in Colloids and Interfaces: Active Colloidal Systems in Gas and Liquid

Interests: metal hydrides; hydrogen bridge bonding; matrix isolation; infrared spectroscopy; computational chemistry; Raman spectroscopy; hydrogen energy chemistry and materials; hydrogen evolution reaction
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Interests: physical chemistry; heterogeneous catalysis; environmental catalysis; catalyst promotion; chemical reaction engineering and thermodynamics; surfaces and interfaces; electrochemistry; fuel cells; nanomaterials and nanotechnology
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Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Advances in Heterocatalysis by Nanomaterials
Special Issue in Catalysts: Nanomaterials in Catalysis Applications
Special Issue in Catalysts: Noble Metal Catalysts
Special Issue in Nanomaterials: 10th Anniversary of Nanomaterials—Recent Advances in Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Interests: reactive intermediates; vibrational spectra; photochemistry; matrix isolation; energetic materials; reaction kinetics; atmospheric chemistry; astrochemistry; computational chemistry; molecular structure and conformation; quantum mechanical tunneling
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Interests: photosynthesis; antioxidation; photovoltaics; pigments; free radicals; chemical reaction dynamics; excitation energy transfer; charge transfer; molecular spectroscopy; time resolved spectroscopy

Interests: electrocatalysis; renewable energy; CO2 reduction; N2 reduction

Interests: infrared spectroscopy; matrix isolation; reaction intermediates; free radicals; reaction mechanisms; infrared photodissociation spectroscopy; atomic and molecular clusters; donor-acceptor bonding; metal–metal bonding; computational chemistry
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Interests: physical chemistry; computational quantum chemistry; molecular dynamics simulation; computational energetic materials science; molecular design of high energy density compounds
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Interests: thermochemistry; molecular energetics; reactivity assessment; structure-energy-reactivity relationships; calorimetry; bond energies
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