Cover Picture: Anisotropic Synthetic Allomelanin Materials via Solid‐State Polymerization of Self‐Assembled 1,8‐Dihydroxynaphthalene Dimers (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 32/2021).

Keywords: allomelanin; anisotropy; DHN melanin; melanin; solid-state polymerization EN allomelanin anisotropy DHN melanin melanin solid-state polymerization 17221 17221 1 07/28/21 20210802 NES 210802 B Anisotropic synthetic melanins b have been generated by solid-state polymerization, as reported by Nathan C. Gianneschi et al. in their Research Article on page 17464. Ellipsoidal platelets of melanin, found to date only in biology, were obtained through pre-organizing the 4-4' dihydroxynaphthalene dimer as the building block, followed by solid-state oxidative polymerization to give polymeric melanin materials without changing their overall morphology. Ellipsoidal platelets of melanin, found to date only in biology, were obtained through pre-organizing the 4-4' dihydroxynaphthalene dimer as the building block, followed by solid-state oxidative polymerization to give polymeric melanin materials without changing their overall morphology. [Extracted from the article]