Spin-based electronics is one of the emerging branches in today’s nanotechnology and the most active area within nanomagnetism. So far spintronics has been based on conventional materials like inorganic metals and semiconductors. However, a new trend is emerging that uses molecule-based materials, or even single-molecules, as components of new spintronic systems and devices. This new area, namely molecular spintronics is at the intersection of molecular electronics, molecular magnetism and spintronics [1]. In this talk I will show the key role played by chemistry in molecular spintronics. The first example will deal with the chemical design of single-molecule magnets which can be useful as qubits in quantum computing [2]. The second example will concern the design of switchable nanodevices made on spin-crossover nanoparticles [3]. The third example will focus on the fabrication of multifunctional molecular devices exhibiting magneto-electro-luminescence (i.e., Spin-OLEDs). [1] J. Camarero, E. Coronado, J. Mater. Chem. 19, 1678 (2009). [2] J. M. Clemente-Juan, E. Coronado, A. Gaita-Ariño, Chem. Soc. Rev. 41, 7464 (2012). [3] F. Prins, et al. Adv. Mater. 23, 1545 (2011).

Molecular spintronics: The role of chemistry

249th National Meeting (2015)

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