Cover picture

Saurabh Agrawal, Ashavani Kumar, Matthew J. Frederick, andGanapathiraman Ramanath*

The cover picture illustrates new possibilities for integrating nanostructures of dif-ferent dimensionalities into larger-scale architectures. The foreground collageshows hybrid microstructures of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, grown bychemical vapor deposition on close-packed assemblies of silica microparticles;such an assembly is depicted in the background. For more information, pleaseread the Communication “Hybrid Microstructures from Aligned Carbon Nanotubesand Silica Particles” by G. Ramanath and co-workers on page 823 ff.