Magnetic excitations and quasi-1D to 3D crossover in the metal-organic framework guanadinium copper formate

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The metal-organic framework (MOF) guanadinium copper formate is of interest in the quest towards rational design of multiferroic MOFs. It exhibits cooperative Jahn-Teller distortion of the Cu ions, meaning first that its space group is polar, potentially giving rise to ferroelectricity; second, the Cu-formate linkages are not isotropic, instead forming 1D antiferromagnetic spin-chains. Interactions within and between these chains have been characterised only by bulk susceptibility measurements, with results somewhat inconsistent with known behaviour of the spin-1/2 1D Heisenberg Hamiltonian. As part of an experimental programme also including magnetic neutron diffraction, we here propose a single-crystal inelastic neutron scattering measurement of the magnetic excitation dispersion curves at low T. This will enable accurate characterisation for the first time of the coupling constants.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091165
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091165
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Creator Professor Martin Dove; Professor Alan Drew; Dr Anthony Phillips; Dr Toby Perring; Dr Viswanathan Mohandoss
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-07-31T16:10:07Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-08-09T06:05:29Z