An article by B. Mizaikoff and co-workers (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA & University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany) features on this month’s front cover. In this article, the cathodic electropolymerization conditions for poly(4-vinylpyridine) and the uptake characteristics of anions were evaluated with respect to their application for electrochemical sensing.
Investigation of the anion uptake properties of cathodically electropolymerized poly(4-vinylpyridine) membranes, N. Menegazzo, Ch. Kranz and B. Mizaikoff, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 2460-2466, DOI: 10.1039/c2nj40156h (Article)
The inside cover was produced by H. Sato and co-workers (Ehime University, Matsuyama & 
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan), presenting preparation of Langmuir-Blodgett films by hybridizing a floating monolayer of an amphiphilic cationic iridium(III) complex with clay particles in a subphase.
Dual emitting Langmuir–Blodgett films of cationic iridium complexes and montmorillonite clay for oxygen sensing, K. Morimoto, T. Nakae, K. Ohara, K. Tamura, S.-I. Nagaoka and H. Sato, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 2467-2471, DOI: 10.1039/c2nj40351j (Article)
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