Nanoscale spin crossover materials capable of undergoing reversible switching between
two electronic configurations with markedly different physical properties are excellent …

Spin‐crossover (SCO) active transition metal complexes are an important class of
switchable molecular materials due to their bistable spin‐state switching characteristics at or …

Recently we assisted a strong renewed interest in the fascinating field of molecular spin
crossover complexes by (1) the emergence of nanosized spin crossover materials through …

A spin-crossover coordination polymer [Fe (L1)(bipy)] n (where L= a N2O22–coordinating
Schiff base-like ligand bearing a phenazine fluorophore and bipy= 4, 4′-bipyridine) was …

Discotic liquid crystals (DLCs) have been exploited in opto-electronic devices for their
advantageous properties including long-range self-assembling, self-healing, ease of …

Iron (II) spin crossover molecular materials are made of coordination centres switchable
between two states by temperature, pressure or a visible light irradiation. The relevant …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are an expanding class of porous crystalline materials
that are built up from nodes of metal ions connected by organic linkers. While most efforts …

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent a type of promising porous crystalline
material because of their enormous application potential in many fields, such as adsorption …

We report on theoretical and experimental work involving a particular molecular switch, an
[Fe II (L) 2] 2+ complex, that utilizes a spin transition (“crossover”). The hallmark of this …

A photoisomerizable diarylethene-derived ligand, phen*, has been successfully introduced
into a spin-crossover iron (II) complex,[Fe (H2B (pz) 2) 2phen*](1; pz= 1-pyrazolyl). A ligand …