Molecular Materials (eBook)

Professor Duncan Bruce graduated from the University of Liverpool (UK), where he also gained his PhD. In 1984, he took up a Temporary Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and was awarded a Royal Society Warren Research Fellowship. He was then appointed Lecturer in Chemistry and was promoted Senior Lecturer in 1994, in which year he became co-director of the Sheffield Centre for Molecular Materials. In 1995, he was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Exeter. Following the closure of Exeter's chemistry department in 2005, Professor Bruce took up his present position as Professor of Materials Chemistry in York. He is currently Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Forum. His current research interests include liquid crystals and nanoparticle-doped, nanostructured, mesoporous silicates. His work has been recognized by various awards including the British Liquid Crystal Society's first Young Scientist prize and the RSC's Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship and Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize. He has held visiting positions in Australia, France, Japan and Italy. Dr. Richard Walton, who was also formerly based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Exeter, now works in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. His research group works in the area of solid-state materials chemistry and has a number of projects focusing upon the synthesis, structural characterization and properties of inorganic materials. Dermot O'Hare is Professor in the Chemistry Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford. His research group has a wide range of research interests. They all involve synthetic chemistry ranging from organometallic chemistry to the synthesis of new microporous solids. Duncan Bruce and Dermot O'Hare have edited several editions of Inorganic Materials published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Inorganic Materials Preface

Preface

List of Contributors

1 Metal-Based Quadratic Nonlinear Optical Materials

Olivier Maury and Hubert Le Bozec

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Basic concepts of second order nonlinear optics

1.3 Dipolar metal complexes

1.4 Octupolar metal complexes

1.5 Switching optical nonlinearities of metal complexes

1.6 Towards the design of pre-organized materials

1.7 Conclusion

References

2 Physical Properties of Metallomesogens

Koen Binnemans

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Overview of Mesophases

2.3 Optical properties

2.4 Electrical properties

2.5 Magnetic properties

2.6 Conclusions

References

3 Molecular Magnetic Materials

Gordon T. Yee and Neil Robertson

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Basic Concepts

3.3 The Van Vleck Equation

3.4 Dimensionality of Magnetic Systems

3.5 Switchable and hybrid systems and future pespectives

3.5.1 Bistable and Switchable magnetic materials

3.5.2 Multifunctional Magnetic Materials

3.6 Summary and conclusions

References

4 Molecular Inorganic Conductors and Superconductors

Lydie Valade and Hisashi Tanaka

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Families of Molecular Conductors and Superconductors

4.3 Systems based on Metal Bis-Dithiolene Complexes

4.4 Towards the Application of Molecular Inorganic Conductors and Superconductors

4.5 Conclusion

4.6 Acknowledgements

References

5 Molecular Nanomagnets

Eric J. L. McInnes and Richard E. P. Winpenny

5.1 Introduction

5.2 A Very Brief Introduction to Magnetochemistry

5.3 Techniques

5.4 Single Molecule Magnets

5.5 Emerging Trends

References

"The present book confirms that the view is correct, even if applications are difficult to forecast. However, the book does an excellent job of putting together several different classes of materials. Many common points emerge, and the book may facilitate the development of hybrids in which the qualities of the "parents" are enhanced." (Angewandte Chemie, 2011)