Macromol. Chem. Phys. 9/2015

Front Cover: Novel, pyrene‐functionalized styrene polymers (P7–9) and thiophene compound (Thi‐Pyr) are prepared via click‐chemistry techniques. Under UV light, the compounds fluoresce with blue and greenish‐blue light respectively, with Thi‐Pyr exhibiting the characteristic pyrene monomer emission bands, while P7–9 show the excimer emission bands of pyrene due to the excitation of ground state dimeric species. These compounds are employed as optical chemical probes for qualitative ion sensing via fluorescence spectroscopy. Further details can be found in the article by O. Karagollu, M. Gorur, F. Gode,* B. Sennik, and F. Yilmaz* on page 939.