Although a lot of theoretical studies have designed perfect spin filters using inorganic/organic/organometallic materials, their fabrication methods are not experimentally feasible. This dilemma could be solved by a recent experiment, where porphyrins have been covalently coupled to graphene edges in a precise manner (Y. He et al., Nat. Chem., 2017, 9, 33-38). In particular, experimental results confirmed that the intrinsic features of porphyrins for metallation are preserved after dehydrogenative coupling to graphene edges, paving the way for realizing synthesizable spintronic devices. Inspir...
