Cover Feature: Unveiling the Potential of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Molecular Solar Thermal Systems (Chem. Eur. J. 1/2024)

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Trapping sunlight energy into chemical bonds has become an important method for storing renewable energy and releasing it on demand. To illustrate the new catalyst-testing protocol, a cyclic road shows the photoisomerization process trapping sunlight (top) and the back-conversion catalytic reaction releasing heat. The bottom wheel indicates that up to 27 different catalysts were studied. More information can be found in the Research Article by I. Funes-Ardoiz, D. Sampedro and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202303230).