Frontiers of organic conductors and superconductors

Top Curr Chem. 2012:312:67-126. doi: 10.1007/128_2011_224.

Abstract

We review the development of conductive organic molecular assemblies including organic metals, superconductors, single component conductors, conductive films, conductors with a switching function, and new spin state (quantum spin liquid state). We emphasize the importance of the ionicity phase diagram for a variety of charge transfer systems to provide a strategy for the development of functional organic solids (Mott insulator, semiconductor, superconductor, metal, complex isomer, neutral-ionic system, alignment of chemical potentials, etc.). For organic (super)conductors, the electronic dimensionality of the solids is a key parameter and can be designed based on the self-aggregation ability of a molecule. We present characteristic structural and physical properties of organic superconductors.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Electric Conductivity*
  • Electron Transport
  • Electrons
  • Models, Molecular*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Organic Chemicals / chemistry*
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemistry*
  • Phase Transition
  • Quantum Theory
  • Semiconductors*

Substances

  • Organic Chemicals
  • Organometallic Compounds