JCP: PERSPECTIVES http://scitation.aip.org/ JCP: PERSPECTIVES Perspective: The dawning of the age of graphene http://link.aip.org/link/?JCP/135/050901/1&agg=rss George W. Flynn<br/> Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms that constitutes the basic building block of macroscopic graphite crystals. Held together by a backbone of overlapping sp hybrids, graphene's 2p orbitals form pi state bands that delocalize over an entire 2-dimensional macroscopic carbon sheet leading to a ... [J. Chem. Phys. 135, 050901 (2011)] published Mon Aug 1, 2011. Perspective: Water cluster mediated atmospheric chemistry http://link.aip.org/link/?JCP/135/020901/1&agg=rss Veronica Vaida<br/> The importance of water in atmospheric and environmental chemistry initiated recent studies with results documenting catalysis, suppression and anti-catalysis of thermal and photochemical reactions due to hydrogen bonding of reagents with water. Water, even one water molecule in binary complexes, ha ... [J. Chem. Phys. 135, 020901 (2011)] published Thu Jul 14, 2011. Spotlight on ionic liquids http://link.aip.org/link/?JCP/132/120901/1&agg=rss Edward W. Castner, Jr. and James F. Wishart<br/> Ionic liquids are an emerging class of materials with a diverse and extraordinary set of properties. Understanding the origins of these properties and how they can be controlled by design to serve valuable practical applications presents a wide array of challenges and opportunities to the chemical p ... [J. Chem. Phys. 132, 120901 (2010)] published Tue Mar 23, 2010. Frontiers in electronic structure theory http://link.aip.org/link/?JCP/132/110902/1&agg=rss C. David Sherrill<br/> Current and emerging research areas in electronic structure theory promise to greatly extend the scope and quality of quantum chemical computations. Two particularly challenging problems are the accurate description of electronic near-degeneracies (as occur in bond-breaking reactions, first-row tran ... [J. Chem. Phys. 132, 110902 (2010)] published Thu Mar 18, 2010. Cold and ultracold molecules: Spotlight on orbiting resonances http://link.aip.org/link/?JCP/132/110901/1&agg=rss David W. Chandler<br/> There is great interest in the production of cold molecules, at temperatures below 1 K, and ultracold molecules, at temperatures below 1 mK. Such molecules have potential applications in areas ranging from precision measurement to quantum information storage and processing, and quantum gases of ultr ... [J. Chem. Phys. 132, 110901 (2010)] published Tue Mar 16, 2010.