Cover Stories

In this section, you will find covers created by BEAM members and the corresponding publication.

2025

Composite hydrogels of phenylalanine dipeptides with trivalent metal cations

Materials Advances
Volume 6, Number 17
September 7, 2025

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/ma/d5ma00339c

Artwork created by Lisa Krahnefeld

Chemical Structure-Dependence of the Thermal Transition in Thermoresponsive Ethylene-Glycol-Containing Polymers as Characterized by EPR Spectroscopy

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
Volume 226, Issue 10
May 19, 2025

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/macp.202500050

Artwork created by Lisa Krahnefeld

Engineering “Meso-Atom” Bonding: Honeycomb-Network Transitions in Reticular Liquid Crystals

Aggregate
Volume 6, Number 4
April 17, 2025

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/agt2.70037

Artwork created by Carsten Tschierske & Yu Cao

Proximity Effects and Aggregation of Hamilton-Receptor Barbiturate Host–Guest Complexes Probed by Cross-Metathesis and ESI MS Analysis

Chemistry A European Journal
Volume 31, Issue 8
February 6, 2025

Publication:
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/chem.202580802

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Chenming Li

Modifying the liquid crystalline chessboard tiling – soft reticular self-assembly of side-chain fluorinated polyphiles

Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Volume 13, Number 1
January 7, 2025

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/tc/d4tc04076g

Artwork created by Carsten Tschierske & Yu Caoi

2024

Fluorinated Linkers Enable High-Voltage Pyrrolidinium-based Dicationic Ionic Liquid Electrolytes

Chemistry A European Journal
Volume 30, Issue 54
September 25, 2024

Publication:
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202485404

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Zviadi Katcharava

Tuning nanoparticles’ internal structure: fluorinated single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) generated by chain collapse of random copolymers

Polymer Chemistry
Volume 15, Number 29
August 7, 2024

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/py/d4py00355a

Artwork created by Marah Alqaisi

2023

Profound Changes in Functional Structure and Dynamics of Serum Albumin in Children with Nephrotic Syndrome: An Exploratory Research Study

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume 66, Number 17
September 14, 2023

Publication:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00680

Artwork created by Haleh Hashemi Haeri

Understanding the Role of Trapezoids in Honeycomb Self-Assembly—Pathways between a Columnar Liquid Quasicrystal and its Liquid-Crystalline Approximants

Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Volume 63, Issue 6
April 17, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202319535

Artwork created by Carsten Tschierske & Yu Cao

Secondary Structures in Synthetic Poly(Amino Acids): Homo- and Copolymers of Poly(Aib), Poly(Glu), and Poly(Asp)

Macromolecular Bioscience
Volume 23, Issue 4
April 17, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mabi.202370015

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Matthias Rohmer

Tuning the Internal Compartmentation of Single-Chain Nanoparticles as Fluorescent Contrast Agents

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Volume 44, Issue 2
January 23, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/macp.202370004

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Justus F. ThĂźmmler

A Mechanochemically Active Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Based on Cu-Bis-NHC-Linkers: Synthesis and Mechano-Catalytic Activation

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
Volume 224, Issue 1
January 10, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/macp.202370004

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Kshitij Sanjay Shinde

2022

Bergman cyclization of main-chain enediyne polymers for enhanced DNA cleavage

Polymer Chemistry
Volume 13, Number 23
June 21, 2022

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/py/d2py00259k

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Yue Cai

2021

Chiral amines as initiators for ROP and their chiral induction on poly(2-aminoisobutyric acid) chains

Polymer Chemistry
Volume 12, Number 43
November 21, 2021

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/py/d1py01021b

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Matthias Rohmer

Chiral amines as initiators for ROP and their chiral induction on poly(2-aminoisobutyric acid) chains

Chemistry A European Journal
Volume 27, Issue 43
June 16, 2021

Publication:
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202101683

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Matthew S. Sammon