Towards understanding the radical-bridged 4f complexes featuring the highest blocking temperatures for single-molecule magnet behavior

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The discovery of slow relaxation of the magnetization and quantum effects in the single-molecule magnet (SMM) Mn12-ac in 1993 has inspired both physicist and chemist alike. A main hindrance to possible practical applications of SMMs is the blocking temperature, below which one molecule behaves as a magnet, which is too low. Recently it was found that the two N2(3-) radical-bridged rare-earth complexes Dy2N2(3-) and Tb2N2(3-) posses the highest known blocking temperatures of 8.3 and 14 K, respectively. We here propose INS experiments on these clusters in order to determine the strength of the magnetic anisotropy and exchange interactions, where the latter is, as suggested by previous magnetic susceptibility data, remarkably high for 4f metal ions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089241
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089241
Provenance
Creator Mr Joscha Nehrkorn; Professor Oliver Waldmann
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-07-20T06:53:18Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-07-25T09:08:50Z