Deciphering the most promising strategy for the evolution of microbial infection and inflammation-based therapeutics is one of the most challenging affairs to date. Development of peptide-based smart supergelators with innate antimicrobial and antiinflammatory activities is an appealing way out.
The emergence of drug-resistant microbes in conjunction with antiinflammatory responses are one of the universal challenges in health care avenues. Although scientists have dedicated enormous efforts to discover potential constructs,...
A Heterochiral Diphenylalanine Auxin Derivative exhibited remarkable mechanical strength and antimicrobial propensities at room temperature (N. Khan, A. Gupta, V. Shivhare, R. Ahuja, M. Varshney, A. Basu, and A. Dutt...
Spin–Spin interactions between
unpaired electrons in organic
radicals are of utter importance from the viewpoint of molecular magnetism
and the development of smart materials. The diamagnetic to paramagnetic
phase transition observed in some radicals often leads to “magnetic bistability,” sometimes associated with
a thermally accessible structural phase transition. The noncovalent
interactions determining the solid-state packing arrangement are highly
susceptible to external stimuli (temperature, pressure, light, electric
field, etc.) and allow the radicals to respond reversibly. Thus, a
qualitative understanding of the communication pathway of the spin
centers and factors determining the solid-state packing arrangement
for the radicals is most important. In this perspective, we mainly
discuss the effect of noncovalent interactions rearranging the radicals’
position with temperature determining the mechanistic pathway of such
phase transitions. We focus on the importance of electronic parameters
stabilizing different polymorphic phases of the radicals, secondary
dynamic effects arising from the π-stacking in solid-state,
and their role in a magnetic phase transition, along with the consequences
of different external stimuli in fine-tuning the magnetic bistable
states.
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