Porous Hybrids: MOF Nano‐Vesicles and Toroids: Self‐Assembled Porous Soft‐Hybrids for Light Harvesting (Adv. Funct. Mater. 45/2013)

Nature employs light-harvesting complexes for efficient migration of photons to the reaction centre for the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy. Mimicking this natural process of energy transfer in a synthetic light-harvesting system is demonstrated by V. M. Suresh, S. J. George, and T. K. Maji in a functional nanoscale soft-porous luminescent metal–organic framework. On page 5585, coordination-directed self-assembly of a chromophoric organic linker results in ordered metal-organic vesicular and toroid nanostructures that act as a light-harvesting scaffold for noncovalently entrapped dye molecules.