In 1999, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (DBG) merged their two major physical chemistry journals Faraday Transactions and Berichte der Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie to form a single new journal entitled: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP), A Journal of European Chemical Societies. PCCP publishes new, original research, covering the areas of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry, and includes papers on:biophysical chemistry, chemisorption and heterogeneous catalysis, clusters, colloid and interface science, computational chemistry and molecular dynamics, electrochemistry, energy transfer and relaxation processes, gas-phase kinetics and dynamics, laser-induced chemistry, liquids and solutions, materials science, molecular beam kinetics and spectroscopy, photochemistry and photophysics, physical chemistry of macromolecules and polymers, physisorption and chromatographic science, quantum chemistry and molecular structure, radiation chemistry, reactions in condensed phases, solid-state chemistry (microstructures and dynamics), spectroscopy of molecules and gas-phase complexes, spectroscopy, statistical mechanics and quantum theory of the condensed phase, statistical mechanics of gaseous molecules and complexes, surface science, thermodynamics, zeolites and ion-exchange phenomena.