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Inside Back Cover: Supramolecular Virus‐Like Nanorods by Coassembly of a Triblock Polypeptide and Reversible Coordination Polymers (Chem. Eur. J. 2/2017)
Author(s) -
HernandezGarcia Armando,
Velders Aldrik H.,
Stuart Martien A. Cohen,
de Vries Renko,
van Lent Jan W. M.,
Wang Junyou
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201605386
Subject(s) - nanorod , supramolecular chemistry , lanthanide , trojan horse , coacervate , polymer science , trojan , chemistry , luminescence , crystallography , polymer chemistry , materials science , nanotechnology , computer science , crystal structure , organic chemistry , ion , biochemistry , computer security , optoelectronics , operating system
Viruses are often called ‘Trojan horses’ , in reference to Homer's Iliad. Laocoon, a Trojan priest, warned the Trojans not to take the horse into the city, as he prophesied soldiers were hiding inside; he and his two sons were subsequently attacked by sea‐snakes. The Laocoon group statue, capturing this dramatic moment, resembles a coacervate complex; the male figures metaphorically representing the lanthanide complexes with the bis‐DPA ligands, whilst the snakes represent the polymer chains. The lanthanide complexes reveal the formation of the nanorods through their luminescence; so they allow one to ‘look inside the virus nanorod/trojan horse’, hence are coined: LAnthanide Oligopeptide COacervate Orchestrated Nanorods. More information can be found in the Communication by A. Hernandez‐Garcia and J. Wang et al. on page 239 ff.