Functional Organic Radical Materials: Molecular radicals as conductors (FOR-Mat)
Main funder
Funder's project number: 333565
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 438 874,00
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Project timetable
Project start date: 01/09/2020
Project end date: 31/08/2025
Summary
Traditionally inorganic materials such as metals, their oxides or alloys, with conductive and magnetic properties, have dominated in everyday electronic devices and their technological applications are many. By contrast, organic materials are usually thought of as non-magnetic and electrical insulators. The discovery of metallic conductivity in an organic complex led to intense efforts to prepare organic molecules that display conductive properties analogous to metal atoms. Most synthetic metals still require two components for charge transport, relying on electrons moving from one component to the other. This proposal advocates the the design, synthesis and solid state engineering of organic radicals where the charge carriers are incorporated into one-component. An understanding of the design of organic radicals with unique chemical and electronic properties will afford new opportunities for organic materials that have potential applications in real world technologies.
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Related publications and other outputs
- Role of Alkyl Substituent and Solvent on the Structural, Thermal, and Magnetic Properties of Binary Radical Salts of 1,2,3,5-Dithia- or Diselenadiazolyl Cations and the TCNQ Anion (2022) Taponen, Anni I.; et al.; A1; OA
- Room-Temperature Magnetic Bistability in a Salt of Organic Radical Ions (2021) Taponen, Anni I.; et al.; A1; OA
