Inside Back Cover: Supramolecular Virus‐Like Nanorods by Coassembly of a Triblock Polypeptide and Reversible Coordination Polymers (Chem. Eur. J. 2/2017). Issue 2 (29th November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hernandez‐Garcia, Armando; Velders, Aldrik H.; Stuart, Martien A. Cohen; de Vries, Renko; van Lent, Jan W. M.; Wang, Junyou
• Is Part Of: Chemistry. Volume 23:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 462
• Page End: 462
• Publication Date: 2016-11-29
• Subjects: coordination polymers -- hybrid nanomaterials -- polypeptides -- protein engineering -- self-assembly; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/chem.201605386
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0947-6539

Abstract

Abstract : 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. onpage 239 ff.