Layered organic-inorganic materials: A way towards controllable magnetism

The search for new materials for tailor-made applications and new devices involves not only solid-state chemists, physicists or materials engineers, but also the area molecular and organo-metallic chemistry, and even biochemistry. This is especially clear in the field of organic-in-organic multifunctional materials, whose design necessitates to investigate new concepts and principles developed in these different disciplines. Here, the authors review the structure-magnetic property relationships in layered structures, made of organic and inorganic subunits.