Molecular Magnetism 2021: Paradigmatic Landmarks and Horizons
This special issue belongs to the section "Magnetic Materials".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Among the many article collections and journal issues dedicated to molecular magnetism, the present call should be distinguished as aiming at a critical overview reconstituting central paradigms of the domain. The proposed perspective is to regard molecular magnetism as the modern face of magnetochemistry, born about three decades ago, revisiting and enriching, from the prism of structure–property rational correlations, several principles which have been known to physicists for a very long time. The aim is to translate molecular magnetism into chemical language and intuitively examine the knowledge initially expressed in solid state terminology. To that end, coordination chemistry has already offered various valuable case studies, allowing a systematic check on the nature of ions, nuclearity, topology, geometry of the bridges, etc. Another key factor is the availability of modeling methods, along the computer revolution, with which the molecular magnetism has evolved symbiotically, rationalizing the structural causes of exchange coupling and magnetic anisotropy. We invite and await your original contributions to this domain.
Dr. Marilena Ferbinteanu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Exchange coupling–bonding and magnetism
- Magnetic anisotropy–interplay of ligand field and spin orbit effects
- Spin states and spin crossover–imbrication of ligand field and interelectronic effects
- Specifics of lanthanide magnetochemistry
- Multifunctional molecule-based magnets
- Slow relaxation of magnetization
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Published Papers
Magnetochemistry - ISSN 2312-7481