Issue 3, 2008, Inside Cover

Acid/base controlled encapsulation of a fluorescent guest into a photoactive dendritic box.

Issue 3, 2008

Space filling model of a molecule, whose fluorescence depends on input information. The logic behaviour is compatible with a half-subtractor, represented in the right corner. The background shows a drawing of the calculating clock (1623) by Wilhelm Schickard. 

Issue 2, 2008, Inside Cover

The ethanol content of hydroalcoholic beverages (like the whisky in these barrels) and gasoline-ethanol blends can be accurately determined thanks to a fluorous colorimetric copper (II)-based indicator-displacement assay.

Issue 2, 2008

300 years after the discovery of Prussian blue, cyano-bridged metal coordination polymers are synthesised as nanoparticles and organised by using meso-structured hybrid silica hosts.

Issue 1, 2008, Inside Cover

Proposed model structure for a hypothetical porous polymer where "naked fluoride" moieties are site isolated and available for H2 physisorption.

Issue 1, 2008

The scaffold from blister beetle, cantharidin, is modified to a bulky cation with associated anion-an ionic liquid. Surprisingly, it blocks the GTPase activity of the endocytosis protein dynamin.