Michel Verdaguer – författare

This book provides the reader with a unified understanding of the rapidly expanding field of molecular materials and devices: electronic structures and bonding, magnetic, electrical and photo-physical properties, and the mastering of electrons in molecular electronics. This revised edition includes updates and additions on hot topics such as molecular spintronics (the role of spin in electron transport) and molecular machines (how electrons can generate molecularmotions).Chemists will discover how to understand the relations between electronic structures and properties of molecular entities and assemblies, and to design new molecules and materials. Physicists and engineers will realize how the molecular world fits in with their need for systems flexible enough to check theories or provide original solutions to exciting new scientific and technological challenges. The non-specialist will find out how molecules behave in electronics at the most minute,sub-nanosize level.

This book provides the reader with a unified understanding of the rapidly expanding field of molecular materials and devices: electronic structures and bonding, magnetic, electrical and photo-physical properties, and the mastering of electrons in molecular electronics. This revised edition includes updates and additions on hot topics such as molecular spintronics (the role of spin in electron transport) and molecular machines (how electrons can generate molecular motions). Chemists will discover how to understand the relations between electronic structures and properties of molecular entities and assemblies, and to design new molecules and materials. Physicists and engineers will realize how the molecular world fits in with their need for systems flexible enough to check theories or provide original solutions to exciting new scientific and technological challenges. The non-specialist will find out how molecules behave in electronics at the most minute, sub-nanosize level.

high as 35 K. The rush to room temperature was won by Miller and Epstein again who showed that V(TCNEh is a disordered ferrimagnet above room temperature. Verdaguer opened the saga of Prussian blue derivatives, finally reporting a ferri- magnet comprising chromium(III), vanadium(II), and vanadium(III) which orders above room temperature. Nowadays the attempts to prepare molecular magnets which can be used at room temperature are continuing but at the same time there are many attempts to synthe- sise molecular magnets which have properties which are difficult to be met in inor- ganic magnets. Day reported an organic superconductor coexisting in the same lattice of a molecular paramagnet, while more recently Coronado reported a mole- cular ferromagnet hosting in the lattice an organic conductor. This is an example of ferromagnetic conductor in which the active electrons, namely conducting and mag- netic, are separated. Many efforts are currently done to investigate chiral magnets and to use light to influence the magnetic properties of the materials.