Forthcoming Special Issues
In honor of Kenneth Caulton’s retirement
Guest editors:
Prof. Jeremy Smith
Indiana University, USA
Manuscript submission information:
This is an invite-only Special Issue. The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of "VSI: Caulton retirement" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/inorganica-chimica-acta
Submission Deadline: Apr 30, 2023
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Reactivity of tetrapyrroles at surfaces
The main functionality of tetrapyrrole-based centers embedded in protein pockets in Nature is determined by the single atom species that is caged inside the macrocycle, while a finer tuning (band gap, chemical selectivity etc) is granted by the geometric and electronic structure of the tetrapyrrole, including its residues, and by the proximal and distal structures of the protein surroundings that exploit the molecular trans-effect and direct weak interactions, respectively. A scientific and technological challenge consists in the artificial replication in novel materials of both structure and functionality of natural reaction centers. Nano-architected 2D metalorganic frameworks can be self-assembled under controlled conditions at supporting surfaces and, in the specific, porphyrin- and phthalocyanine-based systems are widely investigated in ultra-high vacuum environments by means of surface science approaches. However, especially in the case of the interaction with ligands and chemical reactivity, the limits associated with most available experimental approaches represent a relevant gap with respect to both comparison with natural counterparts from the liquid environment and potential applicative views at both solid-liquid and solid-gas interfaces. Thus, a step forward in the direction is strongly necessary, while maintaining the atomic-level detail characterization accuracy of the materials. Nowadays this becomes feasible by exploiting state-of-the-art experimental techniques, in combination with computational simulations. Thus, this special issue focusses on the latest advances in the direction of a thorough characterization of the activity of porphyrins, phthalocyanines, and tetrapyrroles in general at surfaces.
Guest editors:
Professor Erik Vesselli
Department of Physics
University of Trieste, Italy
[email protected]
Dr. Francesco Allegretti
Department of Physics
Technical University Munich, Germany
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Manuscript submission information:
You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Professor Erik Vesselli via [email protected].
The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of "VSI: Tetrapyrroles @ surfaces" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/inorganica-chimica-acta
Submission Deadline: Mar 31, 2023
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Inorganic chemistry of metals and their compounds: Biomedical and other areas of interdisciplinary research
Over the years, inorganic chemistry has evolved in that it has become very interdisciplinary in terms of the fight against cancer, antibacterial studies, and the fight against Alzheimer’s disease to name a few. Also, inorganic reaction mechanisms has evolved in mechanistic studies in artificial photosynthesis and has been complementary in multinuclear NMR spectroscopic studies and inorganic materials. In terms or bioinorganic chemistry as a complement, drug carriers are synthesized from different types of materials including inorganic nanoparticles, nanomaterials. and polymer/inorganic nanocomposites. The exciting research that involves inorganic chemistry has also evolved in the area of electronics and medical devices.
Guest editors:
Prof. Alvin Holder
Old Dominion University, U.S.A.
[email protected]
Dr. Mark Lawrence
The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica
[email protected]
Manuscript submission information:
You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Prof. Alvin Holder via [email protected]
The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of "VSI: David Richens Chem" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/inorganica-chimica-acta
Submission Deadline: Oct 31, 2022
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Present and future advances in heterogeneous photocatalysis
In the last years, heterogeneous photocatalysis has garnered widespread attention in the field of energy production and environment remediation due to its multifaceted applications, such as in pollutant degradation, fuels production and anti-microbial activities. Photocatalytic reactions are carried out at atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature, in presence of a light source to activate photocatalysts (generally semiconductors). These ones, if suitably irradiated by a light source having an energy greater than or equal to their energy gap, promote the transition of an electron from the valence band to the conduction band, generating electron-hole pairs are able to initiate red-ox reactions. In the last years, a wide variety of photocatalysts, such as metal oxides and MOFs were studied for different applications. Additionally, various modification strategies, including the construction of heterojunction systems, introduction of dopant elements and/or defects into semiconductor crystalline structure as well as the coupling with photoluminescent particles (called phosphors) or with polymers have been proposed. However, there are still substantial challenges that delay the practical large-scale applications of this technology, such the low light energy utilization, rapid recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs, design and development of photoreactor able to guarantee an optimal light distribution. Other significant knowledge gaps is related to kinetics mechanism and thermodynamics analysis of photocatalysis are yet to be completely understood. This Special Issue is going to be focused on “ Present and future advances in heterogeneous photocatalysis”, posing the attention to the syntheses, characterizations and applications of innovative photocatalysts.
Manuscript submission information:
You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Dr. Olga Sacco via [email protected].
The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of "VSI: Photocatalysis Advances" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/inorganica-chimica-acta
Submission Deadline: Jan 31, 2023
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