Heavy Atom Radicals as Conductive and Magnetic Materials

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One of the great challenges facing information and energy transfer technologies in the next decade is the development of environmentally friendly materials possessing multifunctional behavior, that is, systems that offer a combination of two or more physical properties, e.g., optical, conductive, magnetic, that can be used together in information storage devices. In the emerging field of spin-electronics, for example, materials must display both conductive and magnetic signatures.The emerging realization that it is possible to build molecular or "organic" radicals that function in this capacity, serving jointly as single-component magnetic and electronic materials, has sparked a world-wide surge in interest in the design, synthesis and structural characterization of property-specific radicals.