ERC Consolidator Grant 'RadMag'
Radical Solutions to the Hysteresis Problem in Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme through Grant Agreement 646740
Molecules that display magnetic hysteresis are called single-molecule magnets (SMMs). The magnetic memory effects of SMMs may represent the lower size limit for information storage materials based on electron spin, thus providing a potential gateway to advanced forms of technology, such as molecular hard-disk drives, quantum computers and molecular spintronic devices. The problem with SMMs is that the magnetic memory function has, until recently, only worked when the materials are cooled with liquid-helium, which is a significant barrier to developing the field.
In a ground-breaking development from my ERC Consolidator Grant project, my group recently reported the first SMM to show magnetic hysteresis above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. You can read about this work in our Science paper and other recent developments in our reviews in Accounts of Chemical Research and in Chemical Reviews.
Future work in the Layfield group will focus pushing the SMM blocking temperature as high as possible using our bespoke synthetic organometallic chemistry approach...
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme through Grant Agreement 646740
Molecules that display magnetic hysteresis are called single-molecule magnets (SMMs). The magnetic memory effects of SMMs may represent the lower size limit for information storage materials based on electron spin, thus providing a potential gateway to advanced forms of technology, such as molecular hard-disk drives, quantum computers and molecular spintronic devices. The problem with SMMs is that the magnetic memory function has, until recently, only worked when the materials are cooled with liquid-helium, which is a significant barrier to developing the field.
In a ground-breaking development from my ERC Consolidator Grant project, my group recently reported the first SMM to show magnetic hysteresis above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. You can read about this work in our Science paper and other recent developments in our reviews in Accounts of Chemical Research and in Chemical Reviews.
Future work in the Layfield group will focus pushing the SMM blocking temperature as high as possible using our bespoke synthetic organometallic chemistry approach...
