Inside Front Cover: A Combined Top-Down/Bottom-Up Approach for the Nanoscale Patterning of Spin-Crossover Coordination Polymers (Adv. Mater. 16/2007)

✍ Scribed by G. Molnár; S. Cobo; J. A. Real; F. Carcenac; E. Daran; C. Vieu; A. Bousseksou

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 931 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0935-9648
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.200790060

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The background scanning electron microscopy image shows nanometric patterns of the 3D spin crossover coordination polymer Fe(pyrazine)[Pt(CN)~4~] (see schematic structure in the circle), which have been fabricated using a combination of lift‐off and multilayer sequential assembly methods. These patterns, reported by Gábor Molnár, Azzedine Bousseksou, and co‐workers on p. 2163, exhibit a bistability of their electronic states (^1^A~1~ ⇌ ^5^T~2~), and thus represent a novel platform for a wide array of potential applications.