Functional Molecular Materials Insights—a Themed Issue in Honour of Professor Manuel Almeida on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

Dear Colleagues,

The development of functional molecular materials has become one of the main challenges for chemists, physics, and materials researchers. Molecular materials are based on well-designed molecular building blocks, prepared by advanced organic/inorganic synthetic methods, and crystal engineering plays a fundamental role in obtaining the desired (nano)structures. Crystal engineering has enabled the development of materials with tuneable chemical and physical solid-state properties. The field has evolved significantly, with a growing number of molecular materials capable not only of reproducing the different types of properties commonly found in other materials, but also of showing new ones. For this reason, multifunctional materials are potentially useful in technological applications, namely in electronic devices, sensors, and in spintronics.

This Special Issue of Magnetochemistry aims to publish a collection of state-of-the-art research papers illustrating the recent achievements on the development of molecular materials, especially those with unconventional magnetic and transport properties, as well as their potential applications, particularly addressing the topics listed below:

• Design and preparation of new molecular building blocks;
• Molecular materials for next-generation batteries;
• Molecular materials with high-performance electronic and magnetic properties;
• Molecular materials in electronic devices;
• Molecular materials for bioscience and bioelectronics;
• New optical, magnetic and electrical sensors for advanced electronic applications;
• Electronic processes and relevant phenomena in molecular materials.

Dr. Laura C. J. Pereira
Dr. Dulce Belo
Guest Editors

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