The development of molecular materials whose physical properties can be controlled by
external stimuli—such as light, electric field, temperature, and pressure—has recently …

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 …

Magnetic bistable materials that feature magnetic hysteresis are comparable to elementary
binary units and promising for application in switches and memory devices. In this work, we …

The light-induced phase transition between the low-spin (LS) and high-spin (HS) states of
some transition-metal ions has been extensively studied in the fields of chemistry and …

This work reviews the experimental studies on photo-induced cooperative phenomena
(photo-induced phase transitions, PIPT), which are related to ultrafast structural and …

Historically most materials in magnetic applications are based on inorganic materials.
Recently, however, organic and molecular materials have begun to show increasing …

A possible route to finding new optically switchable molecular solids is to investigate the
photoeffects of compounds that exhibit an abrupt phase transition or hysteresis loop. Such …

In molecular spin-crossover materials, the spin-state switching is strongly coupled with
changes in the structural degrees of freedom, which play a central role in the alteration of …

A survey of mononuclear iron (II) complexes with heterocyclic N-donor ligation is presented.
A brief introduction to spin-crossover chemistry and low-temperature spin-trapping is …

Both spin-crossover complexes and molecular nanomagnets display bistable magnetic
states, potentially behaving as elementary binary units for information storage. It is a …