The Journal of Chemical Physics Editors Choice for 2010

A publication by members of the Centre for Plastic Electronics features in the editors choice for the JCP 2010.

The Editors at The Journal of Chemical Physics facilitate publication of the most innovative and influential articles in the field of Chemical Physics each year.  In the collection for JCP articles published in 2010, the Editors identified a paper published by CPE members, Prof. Jenny Nelson, Drs. Roderick MacKensie and Jarvist Frost, detailing numerical carrier mobility studies in thin films containing fullerene derivatives. 

A numerical study of mobility in thin films of fullerene derivatives 

Roderick C. I. MacKenzie, Jarvist M. Frost, and Jenny Nelson

Electron mobility in films of fullerene derivatives is investigated numerically by attaching aliphatic chains to the C60 cage. Molecular dynamics is used to generate film morphology, quantum chemical methods to calculate intermolecular charge transfer rates, and Monte Carlo methods to simulate time-of-flight experiments. It is found that as the length of the aliphatic side chain increases, the configurational disorder increases and thus the mobility decreases.  (J. Chem. Phys. 132, 064904 (2010))

These and the other seminal articles are freely available online at http://jcp.aip.org/editors_choices_2010 until the end of August 2011.