Metal Complexes for Optical and Electronics Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 12316
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transition metal-complexes; linear and non-linear optics; non-innocent sulphur ligands; donor-acceptor adducts; noble-metals recovery
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Interests: lanthanides; luminescence; spectroscopy; coordination chemistry; hybrid materials; photophysics
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Interests: coordination chemistry; transition metal-complexes; molecular materials; linear and non-linear optics; non-innocent sulphur ligands; DFT calculations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal complexes represent a very large class of molecules which show a variety of chemical and physical properties with important consequences at biological and technological levels. Among the properties presented by metal complexes, catalytic, redox, magnetic, conducting, and optical functionalities are worthy of attention. Moreover, the possibility to change the characteristics of the metal (element and/or oxidation state), along with a proper design of the ligands, allows fine tuning these chemical and physical properties. Currently, metal complexes are attracting great interest in materials science due to their diverse optoelectronic and magnetic properties. The design of such compounds comprises mononuclear as well as polynuclear discrete molecules, supramolecular assemblies, and coordination polymers of various dimensionality, where the resulting morphology often determines an added property.
This Special Issue is devoted to collecting valued contributions on metal complexes, including lanthanide ones, interacting with photons and electrons to achieve absorption, emission, nonlinear optical, photo-switchable, and conducting properties, as well as valued related aspects for optical and electronic applications, including newly emerging quantum technologies. All scientists working in these fields are invited to submit their works for publication in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Paola Deplano
Dr. Flavia Artizzu
Dr. Luca Pilia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coordination chemistry
- metal complexes
- transition metals
- lanthanides
- luminescence
- nonlinear optics
- photo-switching
- conductivity
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