Chemical Physics Impact

Chemical physics research with applications and impact

Chemical Physics Impact is a new gold open access journal which publishes peer-reviewed papers on how chemical physics impacts areas such as new materials, catalysis, drug discovery, energy production and storage, and climate change.

Original papers describing how chemical physics impacts other scientific fields including astrophysics, soft matter, geology, environmental and atmospheric science, biology and medicine are also a major feature. New experimental techniques and their development based on chemical physics is also a focus area of the journal.

The field of chemical physics involves fundamental research on atoms, molecules, condensed phases, nanomaterials, interfaces and biosystems. Experimental findings are interpreted by theory and computational or theoretical results are linked to experiment.

We particularly welcome papers in the following areas:

New Materials, Energy and Catalysis
• Energy Conversion and Storage – Heterogeneous catalysis (Bio, Photo and Electro), Photo-electrochemistry, Electrochemistry, Water Splitting, Artificial Photosynthesis, Photovoltaics, Solar energy cells, Solar fuels, Conversion of light fuel cells, Non-Carbon-based fuels (e.g. ammonia, hydrogen, etc.) Carbon capture, Novel materials for batteries, Energy storage, capacitors.
• Chemical, Catalytic Activity and Properties of materials at the interface – Studies of chemical transformations at solid surfaces, observations and predictions of novel material and surface properties.
• Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Nano, Hybrid, and Low-Dimensional Materials – Synthesis, Assembly, Characterization, Theory, Simulation of materials, steady-state, and time-resolved spectroscopy of nano- and 2D materials, plasmonic and photonic materials.

Biomaterials, Biophysics, Soft Matter and Liquids
• Biomaterials – Experimental, Theoretical and Computational research in biomaterials.
• Biophysical and Biochemical Systems and Processes- Experimental, Theoretical and Computational research in biomolecules (nucleic acids, proteins, membranes, enzyme catalysis).
• Chemical and Biological Sensing.
• Soft Matter, Fluid Interfaces, Colloids, Polymers, and Glassy Materials.
• Liquids- Chemical and Dynamical Processes in Solution, properties of liquids, ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, and fluid interfaces, and solid-liquid interfaces, bulk studies of electrolytes); and spectroscopy, charge, and energy transfer of molecules in solution.

Molecules, Clusters and Aerosols
• Structure, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity of Molecules and Clusters.
• Aerosols, Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry, Astrochemistry, Geochemistry.
• Combustion and Plasma Chemistry.

Theory and Computations for Chemical Physics
• Quantum Chemistry and Density Functional Theory Computations with novel applications.
• Applications of Machine Learning.
• New Algorithms and Software.

Chemical Physics Impact aspires to be the leading journal in the applications and impact of chemical physics. The journal gives authors a platform to showcase their best research in a flexible new journal that supports a variety of peer-reviewed article types: micro-articles, full length research papers, reports, software, reviews, invited perspectives and special issues.