EDITORIAL pubs.acs.org/JPCL
A New High-Profile Journal for Cutting-Edge Research across Physical Chemistry
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include web-based interviews with featured researchers, highlight Perspectives, and discuss hot articles. To make publication as fast as possible, a new feature, “Cite at First Sight”, will provide a complete citation for each paper on the first day that it is published online as an ASAP article. This feature will allow authors to have 4-8 weeks advanced access to complete citations of their published work, a first for ACS Publications. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters editorial offices are dedicated to handling Letters and will provide careful and speedy editorial processing of manuscripts and give the highest exposure to published articles. Like JPC A, B, and C, all Editors handling the peer review process for The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters are practicing researchers that can be trusted to handle manuscripts fairly and knowledgeably. We would like to thank the many staff in our editorial offices, as well as in the ACS offices in Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, DC, for their tireless work to launch this new journal in a timely fashion. We would also like to thank you, the author, reader, and/or reviewer, for your many contributions to JPC A, B, and C and future contributions to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. We welcome your suggestions and active participation and look forward to working with you in this exciting endeavor.
t is with great pleasure and pride that we bring you the inaugural issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry ( JPC) Letters. This latest member of the ACS Publications family will encompass all research areas covered by and will replace the Letters that through 2009 have appeared in JPC A, B, and C. By having an all-Letters journal format, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters will increase the visibility of important scientific communications in the field of physical chemistry, where urgent publication is essential. In addition, this new journal will provide a condensed forum in which readers can peruse the most cutting-edge research across physical chemistry/chemical physics and related areas of materials and life science.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters will increase the visibility of important scientific communications in the field of physical chemistry.
George Schatz, Editor-in-Chief Prashant Kamat, Deputy Editor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Senior Editor Tim Zwier, Senior Editor
Physical chemistry has traditionally been one of the major pillars of chemistry in providing fundamental information on the electronic properties of complex molecular structures, dynamics, kinetics, and thermodynamics of chemical processes and theoretical models and predictions. With the emergence of nanotechnology in the 21st century, physical chemistry continues to be a backbone in understanding optical, electrical, chemical, thermal, and other properties of newly synthesized nanomaterials. By crossing traditional boundaries, the discipline of physical chemistry now provides fundamental understanding in biophysical processes, aids in the development of new optoelectronic devices and sensors, and facilitates the design of energy and chemical conversion systems. In fact, the letters published in this first issue demonstrate the growing contribution of physical chemistry in many multidisciplinary areas. Our goal with The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters is to provide a high-profile publication for the presentation of urgent research results, and we have introduced several innovative, attractive features for the journal. Each paper has a modern page design and will be tagged with the subject category corresponding to sections in JPC A, B, and C. Another new feature of the journal is Perspectives, which will be brief reports highlighting research topics of interest to physical chemists and chemical physicists. This issue contains two Perspectives in the area of biophysical chemistry. In the coming months we will enhance the journal web page to
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Received Date: October 27, 2009 Published on Web Date: January 07, 2010
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DOI: 10.1021/jz9001899 |J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 1–1
