Nanostructures: Mussel‐Inspired Plasmonic Nanohybrids for Light Harvesting (Adv. Mater. 26/2014)

The back cover image illustrates an innovative scheme for the fabrication of elaborate plasmonic core–shell nanohybrid architectures using multi-purpose mussel-inspired polydopamine nanolayers. The design flexibility and simplicity provides an effective way to develop plasmon-enhanced solar-energy-conversion platforms. By coupling plasmonic resonators and photosensitizers on a sub-nanometer scale through a simple solution-based process, light absorption in photocatalytic systems can be greatly enhanced to boost artificial photosynthetic reactions, as shown by C. B. Park, J. Shin, and co-workers on page 4463.