Strange Cover Art
A small part of me remembers a time before journal articles could all be accessed online. Back then, the cover art -- a creative expression of some of the newly-reported research between the covers -- could swing you towards one journal over another as you milled around the musty library stacks.
Nowadays, we've lost some of that artistic tradition, save for notable standouts Nature Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie. Hence, my confusion when looking at this week's Angewandte cover art - does anyone understand what's going on here?
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| Source: Wiley-VCH, c. 2014 / ACIEdoi: 10.1002/anie.201409223 |
Nowadays, we've lost some of that artistic tradition, save for notable standouts Nature Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie. Hence, my confusion when looking at this week's Angewandte cover art - does anyone understand what's going on here?
Best I can tell, this graphic is a nod to Prof. Younan Xia's excellent overview of the benefits and risks inherent to nano-scale research. But the graphic appears (to me, anyway) to resemble two angry Pokemon fighting over the sword from Legend of Zelda. About the only chemistry I see? Blink, and you'll miss it: along the blade are five tiny emblems meant to represent common nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes or micelles.
Readers, am I missing something obvious here, or does this not really communicate the depth of Prof. Xia's review issue?
