Abstract: It’s significant to design luminescent single-molecule magnets and promote their applications in high density data storage and magneto-luminescence devices. In this perspective, we highlight the advances in luminescent single-molecule magnets (SMMs), which have various types including metal complexes, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), ionic liquids, metallofullerenes, and so on. Among them, metallofullerenes as an emergent luminescent SMMs show great prospects due to the varied metal clusters. Finally, we present perspectives and outlooks on the research directions in the future.

Key words: single-molecule magnet, photoluminescence, metal complex, metallofullerene