Editorial pubs.acs.org/JPCL
What Is Hot in Physical Chemistry? “hot” articles in our opinion present emerging themes of physical chemistry. For ACS Editors’ Choice articles published in JPC A/B/ C, please refer to a recent editorial (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ abs/10.1021/jp511797f).
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n any scientific setting, we are on the lookout for a research breakthrough. Until a couple of decades ago, scientific meetings served as the first setting for disclosing major breakthroughs. Today, breakthroughs emerge first in scientific publications in a major journal. There are various ways one can identify a research article that is scientifically “hot.” Hot articles quickly draw the attention of the scientific community and many times go viral over social networks. The immediate impact of such articles is gauged by their coverage in popular press and the number of downloads and citations. In the longer term, the impact is usually gauged by the citations that an individual article is able to capture. Seminal papers branch out into new fields within the discipline and draw the attention of scientists from across disciplines. Though few in numbers, hot articles carry a longer half-life and continue to garner citations even decades after their initial publication. The emergence of graphene, 2D materials, plasmonics, and perovskite photovoltaics in recent months shows how new research topics can explode in literature from a few initial breakthrough papers.
The “hot” Letters listed in Table 1 in our opinion present emerging themes of physical chemistry. How are the JPCL articles selected for Editors’ Choice? First of all, papers selected for ACS Editors’ Choice should present new scientific advances or breakthrough scientific research with an appeal to broader readership. Second, the reviewers highlight the importance of the research findings in their reviews and draw the attention of the assigned editor. On the basis of his/her evaluation of the manuscript and the feedback received from the reviewers, the assigned editor recommends the article to a rotating panel of managing editors at ACS Publications who are each PhD-level scientists and are conversant with the current scientific literature and research. The ACS Publications editorial team weighs the individual recommendations made by the different journal editors and selects one paper per day as an ACS Editors’ Choice article. Thus, stringent editorial judging criteria are in place to identify “hot” papers as ACS Editors’ Choice articles.
The emergence of graphene, 2D materials, plasmonics, and perovskite photovoltaics in recent months shows how new research topics can explode in literature from a few initial breakthrough papers.
Articles selected for Editors' Choice become open access at no cost to the authors.
ACS Publications has initiated a new and bold move to identify such scientifically important papers as ACS Editors’ Choice articles across all ACS journals (http://pubs.acs.org/editorschoice) during the early stage of publication (Figure 1). These selected articles become open access at no cost to the authors. This feature offers our authors an important open access platform to disseminate their findings to all readers around the globe. So far, for JPC Lett. (JPCL), 17 such articles were chosen by the editors and the managing team at ACS Publications (see Table 1). These
The immediate impact of the ACS Editors’ Choice articles is seen in terms of downloads or Most Read articles. It remains to be seen how these ACS Editors’ Choice articles will carry the impact over a longer period of time. Meantime, we encourage our authors to continue to select JPCL for quick publication of their important findings and to avail themselves of ACS Publications’ ACS Editors’ Choice feature to provide an increased means of dissemination to researchers worldwide.
Figure 1. ACS Editors’ Choice a new feature to identify major breakthrough research and provide open access to global readers (http:// pubs.acs.org/editorschoice). Copyright: American Chemical Society.
Published: February 19, 2015 © 2015 American Chemical Society
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Table 1. JPCL Editors’ Choice Articles title
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Cubic In2O3 Microparticles for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Oxygen Evolution Unveiling the Interplay between Diffusing CO2 and Ethanol Molecules in Champagne Wines by Classical Molecular Dynamics and 13C NMR Spectroscopy Tailoring the Spectroscopic Properties of Semiconductor Nanowires via Surface-Plasmon-Based Optical Engineering Iron-Treated NiO as a Highly Transparent p-Type Protection Layer for Efficient Si-Based Photoanodes
Ming Meng, Xinglong Wu, Xiaobin Zhu, Lun Yang, Zhixing Gan, Xiaoshu Zhu, Lizhe Liu, and Paul K. Chu David A. Bonhommeau, Alexandre Perret, Jean-Marc Nuzillard, Clara Cilindre, Thibaud Cours, Alexander Alijah, and Gérard Liger-Belair Carlos O. Aspetti and Ritesh Agarwal
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 4298−4304. DOI: 10.1021/ jz502316h J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 4232−4237. DOI: 10.1021/ jz502025e
Probing Nonadiabaticity in the Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction Catalyzed by Soybean Lipoxygenase Plasmonic Optical Tweezers toward Molecular Manipulation: Tailoring Plasmonic Nanostructure, Light Source, and Resonant Trapping Parameters Affecting I−V Hysteresis of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells: Effects of Perovskite Crystal Size and Mesoporous TiO2 Layer Kinetically Controlled Self-Assembly of Latex−Microgel Core−Satellite Particles Asymmetric Transport Mechanisms of Hydronium and Hydroxide Ions in Amorphous Solid Water: Hydroxide Goes Brownian while Hydronium Hops New Insights into the Mechanism of Visible Light Photocatalysis Singlet Fission: From Coherences to Kinetics Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with a Homogeneous Catalyst in Ionic Liquid: High Catalytic Activity at Low Overpotential Electron Diffraction of Superfluid Helium Droplets The Importance of Perovskite Pore Filling in Organometal Mixed Halide Sensitized TiO2−Based Solar Cells Plasmon Resonances of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Physical Principles and New Opportunities Chloride Inclusion and Hole Transport Material Doping to Improve Methyl Ammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite-Based High Open-Circuit Voltage Solar Cells Multiexciton Solar Cells of CuInSe2 Nanocrystals
Bastian Mei, Anastasia A. Permyakova, Rasmus Frydendal, Dowon Bae, Thomas Pedersen, Paolo Malacrida, Ole Hansen, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Peter C. K. Vesborg, Brian Seger, and Ib Chorkendorff Alexander V. Soudackov and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Tatsuya Shoji and Yasuyuki Tsuboi
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 3768−3780. DOI: 10.1021/ jz501823d J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 3456−3461. DOI: 10.1021/ jz501872k
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 3274−3278. DOI: 10.1021/ jz501655v J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2957−2967. DOI: 10.1021/ jz501231h
Hui-Seon Kim and Nam-Gyu Park
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2927−2934. DOI: 10.1021/ jz501392m
Mario Tagliazucchi, Fengwei Zou, and Emily A. Weiss Du Hyeong Lee, Cheol Ho Choi, Tae Hoon Choi, Bong June Sung, and Heon Kang
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2775−2780. DOI: 10.1021/ jz5013609 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2568−2572. DOI: 10.1021/ jz501235y
Swagata Banerjee, Suresh C. Pillai, Polycarpos Falaras, Kevin E. O’Shea, John A. Byrne, and Dionysios D. Dionysiou Geoffrey B. Piland, Jonathan J. Burdett, Robert J. Dillon, and Christopher J. Bardeen David C. Grills, Yasuo Matsubara, Yutaka Kuwahara, Suzanne R. Golisz, Daniel A. Kurtz, and Barbara A. Mello
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2543−2554. DOI: 10.1021/ jz501030x J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2312−2319. DOI: 10.1021/ jz500676c J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 2033−2038. DOI: 10.1021/ jz500759x
Jie Zhang, Yunteng He, William M. Freund, and Wei Kong Tomas Leijtens, Beat Lauber, Giles E. Eperon, Samuel D. Stranks, and Henry J. Snaith
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 1801−1805. DOI: 10.1021/ jz5006829 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 1096−1102. DOI: 10.1021/ jz500209g
Jacob A. Faucheaux, Alexandria L. D. Stanton, and Prashant K. Jain Eran Edri, Saar Kirmayer, Michael Kulbak, Gary Hodes, and David Cahen
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 976−985. DOI: 10.1021/ jz500037k J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 429−433. DOI: 10.1021/ jz402706q
C. Jackson Stolle, Taylor B. Harvey, Douglas R. Pernik, Jarett I. Hibbert, Jiang Du, Dong Joon Rhee, Vahid A. Akhavan, Richard D. Schaller, and Brian A. Korgel
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2014, 5, 304−309. DOI: 10.1021/ jz402596v
Prashant V. Kamat, Deputy Editor
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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Views expressed in this Editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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