Magnetic Material Based Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

The demand for new sensing platforms has been increasing over the last few years. While there are many excellent chemosensors based on optical and luminescent outputs, there is increasingly significant interest in the use of molecular magnetic materials for sensing applications. The ability to infer physicochemical properties of matter from magnetic investigation traces its beginnings back to the birth of the study of molecular magnetism, with Bleaney and Bowers elucidating the structure of copper acetate dihydrate from its magnetic properties in 1952. While the development of the field of molecular magnetism has expanded significantly and come of age, the area of magnetic sensing is one that is growing in importance. The exceptional sensitivity of magnetic detection techniques, such as SQUID magnetometry and EPR, allow researchers to investigate minute changes to structure and coordination geometry, giving insights into areas such as ligand substitution, adsorption of guest molecules into porous materials and the tracking of radical intermediates in reaction pathways. As this exciting field of research gains increasing importance in the literature, this is the ideal time to showcase the efforts of researchers in the field in order to bring this work to a wider international audience.

The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase the state-of-the-art in the field of “Magnetic Material Based Sensors” and highlight applicability of magnetically interesting materials for sensing applications.

Areas of particular interest to this Special Issue include:

• Sensing physicochemical change through magnetism in porous materials.
• Use of spin-crossover and other spin state changes to detect physical and chemical processes.
• Detection of transient species in catalytic cycles and as reaction intermediates.
• Monitoring of solution-phase reactions and processes through paramagnetic species.
• Understanding of reaction kinetics through time-resolved magnetic change.
• Multifunctional sensing where magnetic techniques interact with other sensing processes.

Dr. Jonathan Kitchen
Dr. Tony Keene
Guest Editors

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• Magnetic Materials
• Sensing
• Spin-Crossover
• Framework Materials
• Molecular Magnetism
• Porous Materials
• Radicals
• Multifunctional Materials