Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

A coronene-based semiconducting two-dimensional metal-organic framework with ferromagnetic behavior

  • Renhao Dong,
  • Zhitao Zhang,
  • Diana C. Tranca,
  • Shengqiang Zhou,
  • Mingchao Wang,
  • Peter Adler,
  • Zhongquan Liao,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Yan Sun,
  • Wujun Shi,
  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Ehrenfried Zschech,
  • Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld,
  • Claudia Felser,
  • Xinliang Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05141-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Endowing metal–organic frameworks with both high electrical conductivity and magnetic ordering could make such materials useful for spintronics. Here the authors design a layer-stacking coronene-based 2D MOF that exhibits a semiconducting feature with an electrical conductivity of ~10 S cm−1 at 300 K, as well as ferromagnetism below ~20 K.