Cover Feature: A Tool, an App and a Field: Fluorescent PET Sensors, Blood Electrolyte Analysis and Molecular Logic as Products of Supramolecular Photoscience from Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka (ChemPlusChem 4/2023)

Abstract

The cover feature image shows chemical species (in gold) rushing in to bind with receptors (in green) so that light signals of associated fluorophores (in blue) are switched from ‘off’ to ‘on’. Plastic chips containing such fluorescent PET sensor spots help medical personnel to save lives everyday worldwide. These ‘fluorophore-receptor’ constructs also emulate logic gates (in orange) of the semiconductor IT revolution and they can operate in tiny living spaces where semiconductors fear to tread. Molecular information technology underpins all living systems. Cover design by Chao-Yi Yao. More information can be found in the Perspective article by Chao-Yi Yao and A. Prasanna de Silva.