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Physical Chemistry in all its Diversity

2018; Wiley; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/cphc.201800994

1439-7641

Fabian Bebensee, Kira Welter, Greta Heydenrych,

History and advancements in chemistry

This past year has been a busy one at ChemPhysChem, with several special issues, some workflow changes to streamline our processes and the renewal of our Editorial Advisory Board, which takes place every four years. In this round, we also renewed the Chairs of the Editorial Advisory Board, and it is our great pleasure to welcome Alexander Kuhn (Bordeaux), Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht) and Vivian Yam (Hong Kong) into their new role. We sincerely thank our outgoing Chairs, Christian Amatore, Michael Grätzel and Michel Orrit for their commitment to and support of ChemPhysChem over the past years. We also thank our regular board members for their work on behalf of ChemPhysChem, be it as authors, reviewers or advocates of the journal. To those of you who are leaving, we hope that we can rely on your continued support. And of course, a warm word of welcome to our new Editorial Advisory Board members. We are very pleased that you will be a part of our endeavour. Table 1 shows the new Editorial Advisory Board of ChemPhysChem. New members are marked with an asterisk. Name Institution Country Chairs Alexander Kuhn Bordeaux INP France Bert Weckhuysen Utrecht University Netherlands Vivian Wing-Wah Yam The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Members Ibon Alkorta* Instituto de Quimica Medica Spain Vincenzo Amendola* Universita di Padova Italy Vincenzo Barone Scuola Normale Superiore Italy Wybren Jan Buma University of Amsterdam Netherlands Jose Canongia Lopes Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Portugal Jaephil Cho Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) South Korea Alberto Credi* Università di Bologna Italy Christian Eggeling* University of Oxford United Kingdom Andrew Ewing Chalmers Institute of Technology Sweden Xiaohong Fang* Chinese Academy of Sciences China Emmanuel Flahaut* Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France Lucio Frydman Weizmann Institute Israel Frank Gießelmann* Universität Stuttgart Germany Leticia González University of Vienna Austria Michael Grätzel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland Sheng-Gui He* Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences China Stefan Hell MPI für biophysikalische Chemie Germany Enrique Herrero Universidad de Alicante Spain Carmen Herrmann* University of Hamburg Germany Elena Ishow* Université de Nantes France Lei Jiang* Chinese Academy of Sciences Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry China Ralf Kaiser* University of Hawaii at Manoa USA Bongsoo Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea Wim Klopper Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany Steven Magennis* University of Glasgow United Kingdom Manos Mavrikakis University of Wisconsin at Madison USA Byoung Koun Min* Korea Institute of Science and Technology South Korea Anton Middelberg University of Adelaide Australia Alvaro Rafael Muñoz-Castro* Universidad Autonoma de Chile Chile Michel Orrit Leiden University Netherlands Amitava Patra* Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science India Marc Robert* University Paris Diderot France Sunmin Ryu Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea Paolo Samorì University of Strasbourg France Melanie Schnell* Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter Germany Zhigang Shuai* Tsinghua University China Michael Strano Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA Hiroaki Tada* Kinki University Japan Mizuki Tada* Nagoya University Japan Masahide Terazima Graduate School of Science Kyoto University Japan Philip Tinnefeld LMU München Germany Veronique Van Speybroeck* Ghent University Belgium Tanja Weil* Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Germany Lizhu Wu* Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry China Klaus Zangger* Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Austria Bo Zhang* University of Washington USA Tierui Zhang* Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) China For 2019, ChemPhysChem is planning special issues on the NMR of biological systems and biomolecules, hydrogen energy, on-surface synthesis, solar cells and electrocatalysis, so watch this space! A change that we will be making in 2019 is to merge our two article types “Communication” and “Article” into only one kind of article. The communication/full paper dichotomy stems from a time where the production time of an article was determined by its length. Thus, if an urgent and important discovery was made, it was published in as brief a format as possible. With modern production workflows, the length of an article hardly has an influence on the time needed to prepare it for typesetting (with the possible exception of very long articles and reviews). Instead, the communication format has tempted many researchers to parcel their work into smallest publishable units, an unfortunate practice that leads to needless fragmentation of the literature. For this reason, ChemPhysChem and its ChemPubSoc Europe and ACES sister journals have decided to do away with the distinction between communications and full papers and to publish only one format of primary research paper. There will be no length restrictions in either direction, so short contributions would still be welcome. Submissions that receive truly outstanding reports will be fast-tracked in our production queue, independently of their length. In this way, work that deserves quicker publication will be available in its final version more quickly. As always, we thank you, authors, reviewers and readers for the continued success of ChemPhysChem. We are proud to be associated with you! Fabian Bebensee (middle) joined Wiley-VCH in 2016 as an Assistant Editor for ChemPhysChem. He did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Hans-Peter Steinrück and Michael Gottfried at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg on metal–polymer interfaces using surfaces science techniques. Prior to joining the team of ChemPhysChem, where he now is Associate Editor, he was a postdoc in the group of Flemming Besenbacher and Trolle Linderoth at Aarhus University (Denmark), where he investigated on-surface reactions using scanning tunneling microscopy, and with Christof Wöll at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) studying molecular adsorption on and exciton generation in bulk single crystals using infrared refection–absorption spectrosopy. Kira Welter (right) studied chemistry at the University of the Andes in Venezuela. After working for two years at an energy company, she moved to Germany with a DAAD scholarship, where she obtained her Ph.D. in electrochemistry from the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, under the supervision of Joachim Walter Schultze and Georgi Staikov, for research on electrodeposition and physical chemistry of semiconductors. She joined Wiley-VCH in 2004 and has been with ChemPhysChem since then. Kira also has experience as a science writer and has covered interesting research for several outlets. Greta Heydenrych (left) has been with Wiley-VCH since 2007. Starting out as an Assistant Editor for the ChemPubSoc Europe journal ChemPhysChem, today she is Editor of ChemPhysChem. Her work also entails the development of our society publishing programme, resulting in the recent launches of ChemElectroChem, ChemPhotoChem, Batteries & Supercaps and ChemSystemsChem. Greta did her Ph.D. at the University of Stellenbosch on homogeneous catalysis and computational chemistry under the tutelage of Jan Dillen and Helgard Raubenheimer. In the year before joining Wiley-VCH, she was a post-doc at the Philipps-Universität Marburg in the group of Gernot Frenking, where she studied structure–property relations of small molecules and organometallic compounds.