Title:	Biomimatic Molecular Spintronics and Catalytic Applications of Magnetic Biomolecules
DNr:	SNIC 2014/1-254
Project Type:	SNIC Medium Compute
Principal Investigator:	Ehesan Ali <ehesan@gmail.com>
Affiliation:	Uppsala universitet
Duration:	2014-09-05 – 2016-01-01
Classification:	10603 10407
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Abstract

Transition metal containing metalloganic and biomolecules play crucial role in various biologically important chemical reactions. These biomolecules contain magnetic properties and often associate with spin-crossover chemicals reactions. The unpaired electrons in the partially filled p- and d-orbitals are responsible for the magnetic properties in these bio-molecules. Recently, it has been realized that such biomolecules could suitably be engineered on various substrates. At the interface, it emerges novel surface phenomena due to appearance of new surface state as a result of orbital re-hybridization for molecule-substrate interactions. Thus it opens up a new possibility for technological applications such as molecular spintronics. Tuning the molecule-substrates interaction one can easily control such spintronics properties at the interfaces. In this project we are working on the two major aims (a) the role of molecular spin-states on bio-chemical reactions. The acquired understanding on this part of the project will be applied to designing bio-inspired catalytic magnetic materials, (b) manipulations and tailoring of the magnetic bio-molecules to design novel spin-switching and biomimetic molecular spintronic materials.