Themed collection Molecular Spintronics : The role of Coordination Chemistry

Welcome to this themed issue of Dalton Transactions entitled ‘Molecular spintronics: the role of coordination chemistry’.

The understanding of the SMM–surface interactions, as well as the surfaces where the SMM are deposited, is of utmost importance for the realisation of novel spintronic devices.

Design, fabrication and low temperature characterization of a molecular spin transistor made of graphene electrodes and a TbPc₂ molecular dot are reported.

Single Co adatoms adsorbed on a double-layer NaCl film were negatively charged after applying a positive voltage pulse by STM.

A radical cation salt composed of an organic donor BEDT-TTF^1.0+ and a one-dimensional inorganic anion [Fe(C₂O₄)Cl₂⁻]_n was obtained by electrocrystallization.

The hexaazatrinaphthylene-bridged tri-dysprosium complex [{(thd)₃Dy}₃HAN] is an SMM that shows two relaxation processes and a frustrated magnetic ground state.

DFT methods have been employed to analyse the magnetic and transport properties of a family of Fe₄ complexes showing single-molecule magnet behaviour deposited on gold surfaces.

Recently, research has revealed that molecules can be used to steer the local spin properties of ferromagnetic surfaces.

In this work we present a comparative study of the temperature behavior of charge current in both single-molecule transistors and self-assembled monolayer-based tunnel junctions with ferrocene molecules.

A family of three dinuclear dysprosium complexes, all of which exhibit single-molecule magnet behaviour under zero applied dc fields, have exemplified that terminally bonded solvent molecules can drastically impact slow magnetic relaxation properties.

Spin-dependent hybridization and spin excitation induce multiple magnetoresistance effects in phthalocyanine based spintronic devices.

A theoretical design of molecular magnetic wires based on linear and cyclic oligoacene-bridged dicopper(II) model complexes is highlighted in the present contribution.

In this article, we investigate a single molecule magnet bis(phthalocyaninato)terbium(III) (TbPc₂) molecule film by using low temperature STM.

The molecular spin of Co-tetraphenylporphyrin on metal substrates can be atomically controlled by diatomic molecule adsorption from quantum mechanics prediction.

Organic solubility of these POMs enhances the chemical processability into molecular spintronic devices.

The architecture of a novel concept of a magnetic quantum processor, in which molecular spin qubits are coherently controlled and effectively coupled by single photons trapped in superconducting circuits, is proposed and shown to be feasible.

In this article we show that the quantum entanglement in square planar mixed valence cell can be controlled through the interaction with the neighboring cell in molecular quantum cellular automata.

A coordination polymer heterostructure exhibits light-switchable magnetism with the photoevent in one component influencing the magnetization of the other.

We report an experimental investigation of the magnetic field effect (MFE) in polymer bulk heterojunction devices at temperatures below 10 K using photocarrier extraction by linearly increasing voltages.

A supramolecular assembly of two molecular spin qubits is reported; they differ subtly in their g-values and the exchange interaction between them is measured and modelled.

By measuring the electrical resistivity in TPP[Fe^III(tbp)(CN)₂]₂ (TPP = tetraphenylphosphonium and tbp = tetrabenzoporphyrin) under the application of a static magnetic field, a giant negative magnetoresistance (MR) effect with high anisotropy is observed.

The smaller the ligand the slower the low temperature magnetization dynamics of the crystals of vanadyl complexes.

Strong coupling meets coordination chemistry: hints in the design of molecular qubits in hybrid quantum circuits.

Two Cu^II–Mo^IV cyanido-bridged molecules containing Schiff base ligands reveal photomagnetic effects of different origins: MMCT in Cu₄Mo and singlet–triplet transition in Cu₂Mo.

Two enantiopure 1D complexes were synthesized from the dicyanideferrite building block with a π-conjugated TTF annulated ligand. A field-induced magnetic phase transition is observed (T_N = 4.8 K) for compound 2-(SS).