Incorporation of two characters into one molecular entity is an effective way to afford bifunctional molecule-based materials. Lanthanides serve as a group of preferable objectives for the construction of luminescent single-molecule magnets (SMMs) due to their excellent performances in areas of SMM and luminescence for molecular materials, showing a great potential of applications in high-density data storage, quantum computing, light-emitting diodes, biofluorescence labelling, etc. This review concentrates on the design strategies for the construction of luminescent SMMs referring to the organic chromophores and transition metal-containing chromophores as the antennas, as well as the recent examples of luminescent SMMs. To investigate the magneto-luminescent behavior (including the magneto-luminescent coupling), a few of classical complexes are discussed in the review to emphasize the importance of studying the correlation/coupling between relaxation mechanism and luminescence for lanthanide SMMs.

将两个字符合并到一个分子实体中是提供双功能分子基材料的有效方法。镧系元素由于其在SMM和分子材料发光方面的卓越性能而成为构造发光单分子磁体（SMM）的一组优选目标，显示出在高密度数据存储，量子计算中的巨大应用潜力，发光二极管，生物荧光标记等。这篇综述集中于发光SMM的设计策略，该方法将有机发色团和含过渡金属的发色团作为天线，以及发光SMM的最新实例。为了研究磁致发光行为（包括磁致发光耦合），