Recent aspects of organic metals and superconductors

Some of the recent developments in the field of organic charge-transfer sal ts are reviewed. In particular, novel aspects advancing a better understand ing of the competing metallic and magnetic ground states in the quasi-one a nd quasi-two-dimensional organic conductors are presented. A number of chal lenging experiments rewarded us with new insights in some principal electro nic properties of low-dimensional metals and revealed features of the metal lic state which are not explicable by the usual Fermi-liquid theory. Finall y, new highlights occurring in the vortex state and some recent perspective s on the nature of the superconducting state are discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevi er Science Ltd. All rights reserved.