Cover pictures are a great way to connect art and science. 

Do you need to transform a scientific concept into an eye catching image? 
Check this out and get inspired!
Advanced Materials – May 2024
Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich
"An artistic view of the recovery of gold from E-waste via a revisited version of The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Dairy components (used for the adsorbing aerogel) are visible within the clothes of the man, while the woman's clothes are composed by gold ingots. The E-waste used for extracting gold lays as carpet, at the feet of the two lovers.​​​​​​"​
Advanced Materials Technologies – January 2023
Laboratory of Wood and Cellulose Materials – EMPA  
"Soft and dynamic cellulose composites that display vibrant colors and multiple sensing and signaling capabilities. Hydroxypropyl cellulose acts as structurally colored matrix to disperse cellulose nanofibrils and carbon nanotubes, which enables 3D printability, and provides electrical feedback.​​​​​​​"
JACS AU – October 2022
Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich  
"How can adsorption-based filtration reach its potential in fighting waterborne viruses? Ultimately, a bottom-up approach needs to complement the existing top-down approach to provide a fundamental understanding of virus interactions at solid–water interfaces; such knowledge is imperative to inspire the design of novel efficient waterborne virus traps.​​​​​​​"
Advanced Materials – December 2021
Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich  
"Schematic representation of amyloid fibrils confined within a liquid-crystalline droplet formed by liquid–liquid-crystalline phase separation, and organized in a chiral nematic conformation, capable of guiding the spatial and orientational distribution of functionalized gold nanorods added to the colloidal system."

Environmental Science, Water Research & Technology – December 2020

Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich

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Small Nano Micro – November 2020

Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich ​​​​​​​

"Aerogels are ultralight solid materials formed by replacing the liquid phase found in hydrogels by air. Using protein amyloid nanofibrils as templates, it is possible to design a new class of high-performance conductive aerogels for smart devices, such as biosensors, wearable bioelectronics, pressure sensors and adaptable microsystems."

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Advanced Functional Materials – October 2020

Responsive Biomedical Systems Lab – ETH Zurich

"Magnetotactic bacteria as flow mediators under time-varying magnetic fields. Selective drug delivery is a potential application made feasible by their unique magnetic and hydrodynamic properties. Superimposing a magnetostatic selection field with a uniform rotating magnetic field is shown as a suitable control strategy for targeted actuation of bacteria in the zero field region. Ultimately, such a control strategy may provide a means to enhance selective transport of co-injected or conjugated drugs while mitigating off-target effects.​​​​​​​"

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Advanced Functional Materials – June 2020

Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich

"The cover shows that when mixtures of alpha-Synuclein fibrils (in green) and monomeric alpha-Synuclein (in red) are incubated in presence of the air, short and thick dual-color fibrils form at the air-water interface. In absence of air-water, fewer, longer and thinner fibrils form in bulk.​​​​​​​"

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Nature Food – February 2020
Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich
"Food gels and oleogels feature 3D percolating biopolymers or colloids designed to span water or oil in food, thereby providing viscoelastic properties to an otherwise purely viscous fluid. The cover image is an artistic view of food gel droplets, drawn against the typical cellular background of protein-templated oleogels."  

Chemical Society Reviews – January 2019

Food and Soft Materials Laboratory – ETH Zurich

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