Spin-crossover materials: properties and applications

"The phenomenon of spin-crossover has a large impact on the physical properties of a solid material, including its colour, magnetic moment, and electrical resistance. Some materials also show a structural phase change during the transition. Several practical applications of spin-crossover materials have been demonstrated including display and memory devices, electrical and electroluminescent devices, and MRI contrast agents. Switchable liquid crystals, nanoparticles, and thin films of spin-crossover materials have also been achieved. Spin-Crossover Materials: Properties and Applications presents a comprehensivesurvey of recent developments in spin-crossover research, highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of this rapidly expanding field. Following an introductory chapter which describes the spin-crossover phenomenon and historical development of the field, the book goes on to cover a wide range of topics including Spin-crossover in mononuclear, polynuclear and polymeric complexes Structure: function relationships in molecular spin-crossover materials Charge-transfer-induced spin-transitions Reversible spin-pairing in crystalline organic radicals Spin-state switching in solution Spin-crossover compounds in multifunctional switchable materials and nanotechnology Physical and theoretical methods for studying spin-crossover materials Spin-Crossover Materials: Properties and Applications is a valuable resource for academic researchers working in the field of spin-crossover materials and topics related to crystal engineering, solid state chemistry and physics, and molecular materials. Postgraduate students will also find this book useful as a comprehensive introduction to the field"--

The development of spin-crossover research / Keith S Murray -- Novel mononuclear spin-crossover complexes / Birgit Weber -- Spin-crossover in discrete polynuclear complexes / Juan Olguin, Sally Brooker -- Polymeric spin-crossover materials / M. Carmen Munoz, Jose Antonio Real -- Structure:function relationships in molecular spin-crossover materials / Malcolm A. Halcrow -- Charge transfer-induced spin-transitions in cyanometallate materials / Kim R. Dunbar, Catalina Achim, Michael Shatruk -- Valence tautomeric transitions in cobalt-dioxolene complexes / Colette Boskovic -- Reversible spin pairing in crystalline organic radicals / Jeremy M. Rawson, John J. Hayward -- Breathing crystals from copper nitroxyl complexes / Victor Ovcharenko, Elena Bagryanskaya -- Spin-state switching in solution / Matthew P. Shores, Christina M. Klug, Stephanie R. Fiedler -- Multifunctional materials combining spin-crossover with conductivity and magnetic ordering / Osamu Sato, Zhao-Yang Li, Zi-Shuo Yao, Soonchul Kang, Shinji Kanegawa -- Amphiphilic and liquid crystalline spin-crossover complexes / Shinya Hayami -- Luminescent spin-crossover materials / Helena J. Shepherd, Carlos M. Quintero, Gabor Molna…