Case Studies in the Challenge of Properties Design at Nanoscale

Abstract

In the quest for nano-sized materials with potential applications in new technologies and devices, the molecular magnetism based on coordination systems shows a valuable path, including the idea of structure-property rationales. Polynuclear coordination compounds are already in the range of nanometers and many consecrated magnetic materials that can be prepared at nano-scale granulation, such as oxides, have as bonding and exchange coupling mechanisms the same causal engines identified in coordination systems. Based on this paradigm, several case studies are taken, relating the magnetic properties with methods of electron structure calculations and phenomenological models.