The cover was inspired by the molecular structure
of ferritin. In Analysis of Iron in Ferritin,
the Iron-Storage Protein, Donlin, Frey, Putnam, Proctor, and
Bashkin describe a general chemistry experiment in which students
explore both the iron-release process and the structure of this iron-storage
compound.
The structures used on the cover and in the article
were rendered by Regina Frey and Chris Clark using Swiss-PDB
Viewer and POV-Ray. Insight II was used to generate the original Cover designed by Betsy True.
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