Photofunctional Molecular Magnets: Development and Their Potential Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
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Special Issue Editors
2. DECN, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University Lisbon, P-2695-066 Bobadela LRS, Portugal
Interests: multifunctional and nanostructured materials; molecular magnetism; magnetic properties of materials; chemistry and physics of f-elements
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Interests: functionalization and characterization of hybrid materials; molecular magnetism; lanthanide chemistry; multifunctional materials; luminescence; supramolecular chemistry; environmental applications; optical sensors
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Interests: lanthanide chemistry; optical sensors; dye sensitized solar cells; luminescence; photoconversion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays the development of functional molecular magnets is becoming one of the main challenges for chemists, physics, and materials researchers. Molecular magnetic materials are essentially based on molecular building blocks where their properties can be tuned/modulated from thousands of small variations that organic/inorganic ligands may present, giving rise to an incredibly rich structural diversity. In these materials, the transition metals or lanthanide ions provide the localized moment, and the ligands act as exchange pathways, changing the intermolecular interactions and allowing possible observation of physical properties other than magnetic by external stimuli, such as light, pressure, temperature, etc.
Among these materials, photofunctional magnets are gaining prominence, as photo-switching materials induce magnetic behavior or clearly show both magnetic and luminescence properties, which is the case of some lanthanide-based single-molecule magnets. Their excellent performances have shown great potential in applications such as high-density data storage, quantum computing, sensing, optical switches, biomedicine, etc.
This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims at publishing a collection of research contributions illustrating recent achievements in the development of molecular magnets where the presence of photofunctional properties can coexist, as well as their potential applications, namely in the topics listed below:
- transition metal and lanthanide chemistry;
- photofunctional molecular magnets;
- photoswitching of single-molecule magnets;
- lanthanide luminescent single-molecule magnets;
- photo-switched spin-crossover complexes;
- magnetochiral dichroism;
- magnetic ionic liquids;
- magnetic and optical sensors;
- phototunable MOFs;
- applications of photofunctional molecular materials
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Magnetochemistry.
Dr. Laura Cristina de Jesus Pereira
Dr. Bernardo Monteiro
Dr. Cláudia Pereira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transition metal and lanthanide chemistry
- photofunctional molecular magnets
- photoswitching of single-molecule magnets
- lanthanide luminescent single-molecule magnets
- photo-switched spin-crossover complexes
- magnetochiral dichroism
- magnetic ionic liquids
- magnetic and optical sensors
- phototunable MOFs
- applications of photofunctional molecular materials
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