Frontispiece: Hybrid Silicon‐Based Organic/Inorganic Block Copolymers with Sol–Gel Active Moieties: Synthetic Advances, Self‐Assembly and Applications in Biomedicine and Materials Science

Hybrid silicon‐based organic/inorganic (multi)block copolymers are promising polymeric precursors to create robust nano‐objects and nanomaterials due to their sol–gel active moieties via self‐assembly in solution or in bulk. Such nano‐objects and nanomaterials have great potential in biomedicine as nanocarriers or scaffolds for bone regeneration as well as in material science as Pickering emulsifiers, photonic crystals or coatings/films with antibiofouling, antibacterial or water‐ and oil‐repellent properties. In their Review on page 3354 ff., S. Czarnecki and A. Bertin outline recent synthetic efforts in the preparation of these hybrid inorganic/organic block copolymers, give an overview of these self‐assembled structures and finally present recent examples of their use in the biomedical field and material science.