Front Cover: Self‐assembly of Soluble Nanoarchitecture using Hybrids of Diblock Copolypeptide Amphiphiles with Copper Rubeanate Hydrates in Water and Their Electrooxidation Reaction (ChemNanoMat 11/2020)

A simple approach for producing supramolecular nanohybrids was developed allowing the preparation of soluble hybrid two-dimensional nanosheets in water through spontaneous organization of two-dimensional Cu(II) rubeanate hydrate and cationic diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles. These components self-assembled into nanosheets with a thicknesses of about several nm and widths on the order of several micrometers, which displayed electrooxidation reactions. The nanostructures were dependent on polypeptides, suggesting that both cationic and hydrophobic polypeptide components are involved in generating the two-dimensional (2D) nanosheet structures. More information can be found in the Full Paper by Keita Kuroiwa et al.