Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Giant coercivity and high magnetic blocking temperatures for N2 3− radical-bridged dilanthanide complexes upon ligand dissociation

  • Selvan Demir,
  • Miguel I. Gonzalez,
  • Lucy E. Darago,
  • William J. Evans,
  • Jeffrey R. Long

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01553-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Single-molecule magnets typically only retain information in the presence of an applied magnetic field and at very low temperatures. Here, Demir, Long and co-workers design N2 3– radical-bridged dilanthanide complexes that exhibit giant coercivities and 100-s magnetic blocking temperatures of up to 20 K.