Heavy Atom Radicals as Conductive and Magnetic Materials

在未来十年中，信息和能量传输技术面临的巨大挑战之一是开发具有多功能行为的环境友好材料，即提供两种或更多种物理性质的组合的系统，例如，光学的、导电的、磁性的，这些可以一起用于信息存储设备中。例如，在新兴的自旋电子学领域，材料必须同时显示出导电和磁性特征，人们逐渐认识到，有可能构建起具有这种能力的分子或“有机”基团，共同充当单组分磁性和电子材料，这引发了全世界对特定性质基团的设计、合成和结构表征的兴趣。

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.