Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Metal Complexes

Dear Colleagues,

Coordination chemistry based on transition metal complexes has afforded us a large number of important discoveries as well as industrial and technical applications. Within the period of the last two decades, the discovery of slow magnetic relaxation in this class of paramagnetic systems has practically initiated an explosion of interest on these systems. Under slow magnetic relaxation, it is understood that the conservation of sample magnetization can last for some time, also after the magnetic field is removed. This postulates possibilities for the design of magnetic memory and imaging devices on the nanoworld level, i.e., on the level of one molecule. That would mean an epochal jump in the integration of electronic and spintronic components with enhancement of the order of 10¹⁵ (million-billions) with respect to classical magnetic materials. At present, the issue of nanomagnets (single-molecule magnets = SMM, single-chain magnets = SCM, single-ion magnets = SIM) is very actively discussed on prominent scientific forums devoted to this multidisciplinary field in which knowledge from chemical synthesis and analysis, molecular and solid state physics, quantum mechanics, magnetochemistry/magnetophysics, material engineering, nanoelectronics, and spintronics is integrated. This Special Issue of Inorganics, entitled “Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Metal Complexes”, is dedicated to a particularly attractive field of nanomagnetism of magnetoactive molecules based on 3d and 4f metals.

Prof. Dr. Ján Titiš
Guest Editor

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• Metal complexes
• Zero-field splitting
• Magnetic anisotropy
• Magnetic susceptibility
• Slow magnetic relaxation
• Single-molecule magnets
• Spintronics