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Stimuli-Responsive Magnetic Molecular Materials—2nd Edition
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Stimuli-Responsive Magnetic Molecular Materials—2nd Edition

A special issue of Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481). This special issue belongs to the section "Magnetic Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 3407

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Boris Tsukerblat

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1. Department of Chemical Sciences, Materials Research Center, Ariel University, Ariel 4076414, Israel
2. Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Interests: molecular magnetism and molecule-based magnetic materials; cooperative phenomena in molecule based magnets; vibronic interactions and Jahn-Teller effect in molecules and crystals; optical materials; computational and symmetry assisted approaches in theoretical chemistry
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Prof. Dr. Andrew Palii

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Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russia
Interests: molecular magnets; spintronics; quantum spin processing; nanomagnets; metal–organic ferromagnets; cage automats
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to provide a valuable forum where scientists in different fields will be able to share their most recent novel findings on the control and manipulation of the physically and practically important properties of molecule-based materials.

Topics to be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Molecule-based magnets: magnetoelectric effect, electric field control of spin states and magnetic exchange coupling in molecule-based magnetic materials, mixed valence systems, etc., in spin communication;
  • Temperature- and pressure-induced spin-crossover (SCO) phenomenon, valent tautomerism, light-induced excited spin-state trapping (LIESST);
  • Light-responsive magnetic molecules: single-molecule magnets, single-chain magnets, and chiral magnets, optical switching at molecular level and photoinduced charge transfer;
  • Photoswitching, photomagnetic effect, photomagnetic chromophores, photoinduced charge transfer, light-induced changes in spin state and structure;
  • Applications of stimuli-responsive magnetic molecular materials in molecular electronics, spintronics, and quantum computing;
  • Stimuli-responsive magnetic particles in biomedical applications.

Prof. Dr. Boris Tsukerblat
Prof. Dr. Andrew Palii
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Keywords

  • molecule-based magnets
  • magnetoelectric effect
  • light-responsive magnetic molecules
  • photomagnetic effect
  • photoswitching
  • photomagnetic chromophores
  • light-induced excited spin-state trapping (LIESST)
  • spin-crossover (SCO)

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Refrigeration in Adiabatically Confined Anisotropic Transition Metal Complexes Induced by Sudden Magnetic Field Quenching
by Andrew Palii, Valeria Belonovich and Boris Tsukerblat
Magnetochemistry 2025, 11(8), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry11080069 - 15 Aug 2025
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The article is devoted to the theoretical development of the mechanisms of molecular refrigeration, the area combining molecular magnetism and material science with promise for low-temperature physics and quantum computing, where conventional principles of refrigeration become inefficient. Given this general trend, we propose [...] Read more.
The article is devoted to the theoretical development of the mechanisms of molecular refrigeration, the area combining molecular magnetism and material science with promise for low-temperature physics and quantum computing, where conventional principles of refrigeration become inefficient. Given this general trend, we propose the concept of the magnetothermal effect in magnetically anisotropic complexes of 3d metal ions, caused by fast magnetic field quenching. Within this concept, the most topical case of an axially magnetically anisotropic system isolated from the environment by adiabatic envelope is analyzed. We evaluate the temperature change as a function of the initial temperature and magnetic field and also its dependence on the sign and the magnitude of the axial zero-field splitting parameter and the Debye temperature. Correlations are revealed between the sign of the magnetic anisotropy (dictated by the sign of the axial zero field splitting parameter) and the sign of the thermal effect (heating versus cooling) caused by field quenching. The temperature change is shown to be negative (cooling) in the case of complexes exhibiting easy-axis-type magnetic anisotropy, while for the case of easy-plane-type anisotropy, it proves to be positive (heating). The thermal effects are shown to have an efficient control by varying the initially applied field. These findings allow us to propose complexes exhibiting easy-axis-type magnetic anisotropy as candidates for achieving a low-temperature refrigeration effect caused by fast field quenching and also to employ the established magnetothermal correlations to the analysis of magnetic anisotropy. Full article
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Ligand-Induced Self-Assembly of Clusters by Pyridine–Amine–Carboxylate Frameworks of 3D Transition Metals: Structural and Magnetic Aspects
by Amit Rajput, Akram Ali, Himanshu Arora and Akhilesh Kumar
Magnetochemistry 2026, 12(2), 22; https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry12020022 - 4 Feb 2026
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The ligand-driven self-assembly of metal clusters offers a powerful strategy for constructing discrete molecular architectures with tunable magnetic and structural properties. By judiciously selecting appropriate multidentate ligands, researchers can direct the formation of polynuclear metal assemblies with diverse nuclearities, geometries, and topologies. Coordination-driven [...] Read more.
The ligand-driven self-assembly of metal clusters offers a powerful strategy for constructing discrete molecular architectures with tunable magnetic and structural properties. By judiciously selecting appropriate multidentate ligands, researchers can direct the formation of polynuclear metal assemblies with diverse nuclearities, geometries, and topologies. Coordination-driven processes commonly stabilize such assemblies where multidentate ligands operate as templates and linkers. These will also determine how the metal centers are arranged in space and how they connect to each other. These clusters can take on shapes that range from basic bridging dimers to more complicated icosahedral and cubane-type motifs. They often have excellent symmetry and strong frameworks. Magnetically, these clusters are a great place to study exchange interactions, spin frustration, and the behavior of single-molecule magnets (SMMs). The magnetic characteristics depend on things like the type of metal ions, the bridging ligands, the overall shape, and the local coordination environment. Interestingly, a large number of ligand-assembled clusters exhibit high spin ground states and slow magnetization relaxation, which makes them attractive options for quantum information storage and molecular spintronic devices. This review connects coordination chemistry, supramolecular design, and molecular magnetism of pyridine–amine–carboxylate frameworks, offering insights into fundamental magnetic phenomena and guiding the development of next-generation functional materials. Continued exploration of ligand frameworks and metal combinations holds the potential to yield novel clusters with enhanced or unprecedented magnetic characteristics. Full article
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