Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Designer spin order in diradical nanographenes

  • Yuqiang Zheng,
  • Can Li,
  • Chengyang Xu,
  • Doreen Beyer,
  • Xinlei Yue,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Guanyong Wang,
  • Dandan Guan,
  • Yaoyi Li,
  • Hao Zheng,
  • Canhua Liu,
  • Junzhi Liu,
  • Xiaoqun Wang,
  • Weidong Luo,
  • Xinliang Feng,
  • Shiyong Wang,
  • Jinfeng Jia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19834-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The ability to control magnetic coupling in graphene nanomaterials remains elusive. Here, the authors report an approach of engineering magnetic ground states in open-shell bipartite/nonbipartite nanographenes where the magnetic coupling sign between two spins are controlled via breaking bipartite lattice symmetry.