For a new publication, titled "Structural and photophysical properties of various polypyridyl ligands: A combined experimental and computational study", in the ChemPhysChem Journal (Impact factor 3.144), the CMM made the cover for the journal issue of November 2020. ChemPhysChem is one of the leading chemistry/physics interdisciplinary journals for physical chemistry and chemical physics. The cover shows the interaction between visible light and the building blocks of covalent triazine frameworks, which are promising heterogeneous catalysts. The manuscript shows, via a combined computational and experimental study, that the position of the main absorption peak in the UV-Vis spectra of the building blocks of covalent triazine frameworks can be shifted significantly to lower energies by adding NH2.
