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Spin-Crossover Materials: Properties and Applications

ISBN: 978-1-118-51930-1

January 2013

576 pages

Description
Beginning with an introductory chapter describing the spin-crossover phenomenon and a historical overview of the field since it was first observed in the 1930s, this book looks at recent advances in the chemistry of “traditional” spin-crossover complexes and materials containing iron(II), iron(III) or cobalt(II). Other topics include various types of spin-state transition, multi-functional and nanoscale spin-crossover materials, and new experimental and theoretical discoveries about the physical mechanism of spin-crossover at the molecular level and in bulk materials.
About the Author

Malcolm Halcrow, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Halcrow's independent research has spanned different areas of synthetic inorganic chemistry, but with particular interests in switchable metal complexes, supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering. The synthesis and structural chemistry of spin-crossover materials has been his most active research area in the past ten years; since his first paper in the field in 2001, Professor Halcrow has published 34 papers directly related to spin-crossover, including three journal reviews which are widely cited in the spin-crossover literature.