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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
21260
World Ranking
3449
National Ranking
94

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Azzedine Bousseksou is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Materials Science, with a publication record spanning over 300 works. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, with further specialization in Biophysics, Inorganic Chemistry, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Magnetism in coordination complexes, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, Electron Spin Resonance Studies, Organic and Molecular Conductors Research, and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Spin crossover polymer composites, polymers and related soft materials (2020, Coordination Chemistry Reviews)
  • Unprecedented switching endurance affords for high-resolution surface temperature mapping using a spin-crossover film (2020, Nature Communications)
  • 4D printing with spin-crossover polymer composites (2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C)
  • Colossal expansion and fast motion in spin-crossover@polymer actuators (2021, Materials Horizons)
  • Heat Capacity and Thermal Damping Properties of Spin-Crossover Molecules: A New Look at an Old Topic (2020, Advanced Materials)

Bousseksou has collaborated frequently with researchers including:

  • Gábor Molnár
  • Lionel Salmon
  • William Nicolazzi
  • Laure Vendier
  • Damian Paliwoda

Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Among the recognitions received, Azzedine Bousseksou was named a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Molecular spin crossover phenomenon: recent achievements and prospects

    Azzedine Bousseksou;Gábor Molnár;Lionel Salmon;William Nicolazzi

  • Spin crossover in a catenane supramolecular system.

    José Antonio Real;Enrique Andrés;M. Carmen Muñoz;Miguel Julve

  • Spin Crossover Nanomaterials: From Fundamental Concepts to Devices

    Gábor Molnár;Sylvain Rat;Lionel Salmon;William Nicolazzi

  • Ising-like model for the two-step spin-crossover

    A. Bousseksou;J. Nasser;J. Linares;K. Boukheddaden

  • Two-step spin crossover in the new dinuclear compound [Fe(bt)(NCS)2]2bpym, with bt = 2,2'-Bi-2-thiazoline and bpym = 2,2'-bipyrimidine : experimental investigation and theoretical approach

    Jose Antonio Real;Helene Bolvin;Azzedine Bousseksou;Ary Dworkin

  • One shot laser pulse induced reversible spin transition in the spin-crossover complex [Fe(C4H4N2){Pt(CN)4] at room temperature

    Sébastien Bonhommeau;Sébastien Bonhommeau;Gábor Molnár;Ana Galet;Antoine Zwick

  • Spin Transitions and Thermal Hysteresis in the Molecular-Based Materials [Fe(Htrz)2(trz)](BF4) and [Fe(Htrz)3](BF4)2.cntdot.H2O (Htrz = 1,2,4-4H-triazole; trz = 1,2,4-triazolato)

    Jonas Kroeber;Jean-Paul Audiere;Renee Claude;Epiphane Codjovi

  • Multilayer sequential assembly of thin films that display room-temperature spin crossover with hysteresis.

    Saioa Cobo;Gábor Molnár;José Antonio Real;Azzedine Bousseksou

  • Observation of a thermal hysteresis loop in the dielectric constant of spin crossover complexes: towards molecular memory devices

    Azzedine Bousseksou;Gábor Molnár;Philippe Demont;Jérôme Menegotto

  • Molecular actuators driven by cooperative spin-state switching

    Helena J. Shepherd;Il’ya A. Gural’skiy;Il’ya A. Gural’skiy;Carlos M. Quintero;Simon Tricard

  • Switchable molecule-based materials for micro- and nanoscale actuating applications: Achievements and prospects

    María D. Manrique-Juárez;Sylvain Rat;Lionel Salmon;Gábor Molnár

  • Two-step spin conversion of [FeII(5-NO2-sal-N(1,4,7,10))]: 292, 153, and 103 K x-ray crystal and molecular structure, infrared, magnetic, Moessbauer, calorimetric, and theoretical studies

    Didier Boinnard;Azzedine Bousseksou;Ary Dworkin;Jean Michel Savariault

  • Towards the Ultimate Size Limit of the Memory Effect in Spin-Crossover Solids

    Joulia Larionova;Lionel Salmon;Yannick Guari;Alexeï Tokarev

  • A Combined Top‐Down/Bottom‐Up Approach for the Nanoscale Patterning of Spin‐Crossover Coordination Polymers

    Gábor Molnár;Saioa Cobo;José Antonio Real;Franck Carcenac

  • Single-laser-shot-induced complete bidirectional spin transition at room temperature in single crystals of (FeII(pyrazine)(Pt(CN)4)).

    Saioa Cobo;Denis Ostrovskii;Sébastien Bonhommeau;Laure Vendier

  • Charge Transport and Electrical Properties of Spin Crossover Materials: Towards Nanoelectronic and Spintronic Devices

    Constantin Lefter;Vincent Davesne;Lionel Salmon;Gábor Molnár

  • Synthesis, Structural, Magnetic, and Redox Properties of Asymmetric Diiron Complexes with a Single Terminally Bound Phenolate Ligand. Relevance to the Purple Acid Phosphatase Enzymes

    Elisabeth Lambert;Barbara Chabut;Sylvie Chardon-Noblat;Alain Deronzier

  • Switching of Molecular Spin States in Inorganic Complexes by Temperature, Pressure, Magnetic Field and Light: Towards Molecular Devices

    Azzedine Bousseksou;Gábor Molnár;Galina Matouzenko

  • A novel approach for fluorescent thermometry and thermal imaging purposes using spin crossover nanoparticles

    Lionel Salmon;Gábor Molnár;Djelali Zitouni;Carlos Quintero

  • Thermal and Light-Induced Spin Crossover Phenomena in New 3D Hofmann-Like Microporous Metalorganic Frameworks Produced As Bulk Materials and Nanopatterned Thin Films

    Gloria Agustí;Saioa Cobo;Ana B. Gaspar;Gábor Molnár

  • Emerging properties and applications of spin crossover nanomaterials

    Gábor Molnár;Lionel Salmon;William Nicolazzi;Ferial Terki

Frequent Co-Authors

Gábor Molnár
Gábor Molnár Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Lionel Salmon
Lionel Salmon Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
François Varret
François Varret Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Pierre Tuchagues
Jean-Pierre Tuchagues Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
José Antonio Real
José Antonio Real University of Valencia
Kamel Boukheddaden
Kamel Boukheddaden University of Paris-Saclay
Koichiro Tanaka
Koichiro Tanaka Kyoto University
M. Carmen Muñoz
M. Carmen Muñoz Universitat Politècnica de València
John J. McGarvey
John J. McGarvey Queen's University Belfast
CheolGi Kim
CheolGi Kim Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology

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