

I believe that this is a new way to summarize the main findings of a paper and I am very pleased that the journal liked the idea.ĭo you often use short movies to summarize your work? The editorial team was very enthusiastic about the idea and the animation was then incorporated.

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I thus prepared a short movie and suggested to the editor that it could be used to prepare an animated cover page. It was thus easy to propose a design for a cover page picture, but the artwork showing the molecular flower did not describe the dynamic of the folding/unfolding of the molecule described in the paper. This particular paper describes the conformational changes in multi-Zn(II)porphyrin arrays that mimic the blooming of a flower.

What motivated you to create this animation and to send it to the editors? Initially, he created the video to summarize the findings in his lecture. The movie shows the blooming of a molecular flower (a multi-Zn II-porphyrin array) upon the treatment with an imidazole ligand. He created an animated cover for a recent issue of Chemistry – A European Journal. Jean-François Nierengarten is currently Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (DR1) and head of the Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires at the University of Strasbourg and CNRS in France. Professor Jean-François Nierengarten talks to Vera Koester for ChemViews Magazine about his experiences with using short videos to summarize the main findings of a research study.
