Electrons in Molecules: From Basic Principles to Molecular Electronics

by Jean-Pierre Launay, Michel Verdaguer

Overview

This book provides the reader with a unified understanding of the rapidly expanding field of molecular materials and devices: electronic structures and bonding, magnetic, electrical and photo-physical properties, and the mastering of electrons in molecular electronics. This revised edition includes updates and additions on hot topics such as molecular spintronics (the role of spin in electron transport) and molecular machines (how electrons can generate molecular motions).

Chemists will discover how to understand the relations between electronic structures and properties of molecular entities and assemblies, and to design new molecules and materials. Physicists and engineers will realize how the molecular world fits in with their need for systems flexible enough to check theories or provide original solutions to exciting new scientific and technological challenges. The non-specialist will find out how molecules behave in electronics at the most minute, sub-nanosize level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198814597
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/21/2018
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jean-Pierre Launay, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse and Institut Universitaire de France,Michel Verdaguer, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

After studies at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) de Saint-Cloud, Jean-Pierre Launay was Assistant Professor at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris from 1967. His research was on the electrochemistry of polyoxoanions, and mixed valence systems. He was appointed Professor in 1983 and developed investigations on molecular electronics. In 1989, he moved to Toulouse, and led the "Centre for Materials Elaboration and Structural Studies", a CNRS laboratory, from 2003 to 2010. He has been a member of Institut Universitaire de France. He has also worked on molecular machines such as rotary motors and switching elements. He holds awards from the French Chemical Society and the French Academy of Sciences.

Following a career as a secondary school teacher and Assistant Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) de Saint-Cloud, Michel Verdaguer became Professor at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris in 1988. His research endeavours concentrate on molecular magnetism, in which field he has developed a rational approach to new systems, from quantum chemistry to applications (Haldane's gap, high spin molecules, room-temperature magnets, single molecule magnets). He developed synchrotron radiation studies in the field of molecular materials. He led the "Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Materials Laboratory", associated to CNRS, from 1994 to 2001. He is presently engaged in the study of molecular multifunctional magnetic materials. He holds awards from the Spanish and French chemical societies and from the French Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents

1. Basic concepts2. The localized electron: magnetic properties3. The moving electron: electrical properties4. The excited electron: photophysical properties5. The mastered electron: molecular electronics and spintronics - molecular machines

Editorial Reviews

"In Electrons in Molecules, Launay and Verdaguer have provided us with a marvellous book reflecting their multidisciplinary knowledge of, contribution to, and perspective on current professional practice at the interface of physics, chemistry, and materials science" —American Journal of Physics

"The undeniable strength of this book is its interdisciplinary perspective ... This book is highly valuable for undergraduate and post-graduate students of chemistry, physics and materials science, and electrical engineering who want to get an initial but comprehensive overview of the most important aspects of molecular electronics" —Angewandte Chemie

"The material is topical and the book is an interesting read." —Chemistry World

"Launay and Verdaguer's Electrons in Molecules will be useful for research workers entering fields such as electron transfer and photophysics and for chemists teaching final-year undergraduates in these fields." —The Times Higher Education Supplement

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