Criteria for publication in Chemical Physics are novelty, quality and general interest in experimental and theoretical chemical physics and physical chemistry. Articles are welcome that deal with problems of electronic and structural dynamics, reaction mechanisms, fundamental aspects of catalysis, solar energy conversion and chemical reactions in general, involving atoms, molecules, proteins, clusters, surfaces, interfaces and bulk matter. Reports on new methodologies and comprehensive assessments of existing ones, as well as applications to new types of problems are especially welcome. Experimental papers are expected to be brought into relation with theory, and theoretical papers should be connected to present or future experiments. Manuscripts that apply standard methods to specific physical-chemical problems and/or to specific systems are appropriate if they report novel results for an important problem of high interest and/or if they provide significant new insights. 

Manuscripts describing routine use or minor extensions or modifications of established and/or published experimental and theoretical methodologies are not appropriate for the journal. In addition, manuscripts describing analytical procedures that use established spectroscopic techniques, such as for sample characterization, will not be accepted for publication, even if they appear new or improved with respect to procedures previously used. 

In addition to regular research papers, Chemical Physics publishes invited perspectives articles (called ChemPhys Perspectives) and Special Thematic Issues. Each Chemical Physics Special Issue provides a snapshot of the leading edge in current research of a particular field in chemical physics, and contains invited articles by specialists in that field. The objective is to create a collection of articles representative of the newest findings in a field and equivalent to that covered at a topical conference.

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Editors
Mischa Bonn
Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany Email Mischa Bonn
Yi Luo
Hefei Natl. Lab. for Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China Email Yi Luo
Dongping Zhong
Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Email Dongping Zhong
Honorary Editors
Wolfgang Domcke
Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
R.M. Hochstrasser †
G.W. Robinson
E.W. Schlag
Advisory Editorial Board
A. Paul Alivisatos
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
John B. Asbury
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Bhiman Bagchi
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Eric Borguet
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Joel Bowman
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Giulio Cerullo
Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Arup Chakraborty
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Majed Chergui
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Minhaeng Cho
Korea University, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
David Clary
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Serena de Beer
Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Mülheim, Germany
Dana Dlott
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Fabien Gatti
Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
Hirendra Ghosh
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Martin Gruebele
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Peter Hamm
Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Bogumil Jeziorski
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsaw, Poland
Ying Jiang
Peking University, Beijing, China
Judy Kim
University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USA
Seong Keun Kim
Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, The Republic of Korea
Willem Klopper
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Fanao Kong
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Samuel Leutwyler
Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Robert A. Lewis
University of Hull, Hull, UK
Xinzheng Li
Peking University, Beijing, China
Hans-Heinrich Limbach
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Hans Lischka
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Wenjian Liu
Peking University, Beijing, China
Uwe Manthe
Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Sheng Meng
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Frédéric Merkt
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
William Miller
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Chad A. Mirkin
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Yasuhisa Mizutani
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Shaul Mukamel
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Debashis Mukherjee
Indian Association. for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India
Chi-Kung Ni
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Michel Orrit
Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Piotr Petelenz
Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Markus Reiher
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Zefeng Ren
Peking University, Beijing, China
Richard Saykally
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Gregory Scholes
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Albert Stolow
Conseil national de recherches Canada (CNRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Villy Sundström
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Tahei Tahara
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan
Kazuo Takatsuka
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Zhongqun Tian
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Hans Peter Trommsdorff
Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I), Saint Marti, France
Donald Truhlar
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
John Tully
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Siva Umapathy
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Marten Vos
INSERM, Palaiseau, France
Greg Voth
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gilbert Walker
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jacek Waluk
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Feng Wang
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arizona, USA
Yuxiang Weng
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Martin Wolf
Fritz Haber Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Klaas Wynne
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Kaoru Yamanouchi
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Haw Yang
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Weitao Yang
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Xueming Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
David R. Yarkony
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Rui-Qin Zhang
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Xiaoyang Zhu
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA