Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of new multifunctional molecular materials with tunable properties. The main goal is the preparation of devices in which these multifunctional molecular materials represent an additional advantage thanks to the possibility of tuning these properties. For this, the group uses the usual chemistry tools of coordination for the synthesis of materials that combine different properties.

The most common properties will be of the electric, magnetic and optic kind. In between the first ones the conductive and superconductive electronic and ionic materials stand out. The magnetic properties include magnetic coupling, magnetic regulations with long reach, monomolecular magnets (SMM) or monoionic magnets (SIM) as well as switch systems such as spin transition systems (SCO) among others. The optic properties include the luminescence and fluorescence as well as chiral or photo-isomerizable systems. The systems with SCO also present optic properties such as the blockage of a state of induced excited spin or the light (LIESST) where a transition occurs to a meta-stable state of light absorption spin. The group is also focused on the preparation of materials that combine the magnetic properties with the porosity with the goal of designing materials capable of interacting with host molecules and change their properties for it (chemical sensors).