Preface to Special Topic: A Tribute to John Lumley

Preface to Special Topic: Ultrafast Structural Dynamics—A Tribute to Ahmed H. Zewail

Ahmed Zewail passed away on 2 August 2016. This was a tremendous loss to the community of scientists working on ultrafast phenomena. He pioneered the study of the dynamics of chemical bonds using ultrashort laser pulses, which he had named Femtochemistry. This achievement would change our way of looking at how chemical bonds break, form, and transform. It would encompass several fields of resea...

Preface to special topic: optofluidics.

This Special Topic section of Biomicrofluidics is on optofluidics or micro-optofluidic systems (MOFS), a burgeoning technology that aims to manipulate light and fluid at microscale and exploits their interaction to create highly versatile devices and integrated systems. This special issue puts together various contributed articles focusing on optofluidics or MOFS, which help inspire new researc...

A tribute to John Gibbon.

This article provides an overview of the published research of John Gibbon. It describes his experimental research on scalar timing and his development of scalar timing theory. It also describes his methods of research which included mathematical analysis, conditioning methods, psychophysical methods and secondary data analysis. Finally, it describes his application of scalar timing theory to a...

Preface to Special Topic: Plasmas for Medical Applications

Preface: Special Topic on Reaction Pathways.

This Special Topic Issue on Reaction Pathways collects original research articles illustrating the state of the art in the development and application of methods to describe complex chemical systems in terms of relatively simple mechanisms and collective coordinates. A broad range of applications is presented, spanning the sub-fields of biophysics and material science, in an attempt to showcase...