Development and Investigation of Photoswitchable Molecular Magnets Based on Quinonoid Ligands

本项目涉及可切换分子纳米磁体的开发和研究。能够切换创新材料的功能特性对于这些材料在新型器件中的成功应用至关重要。分子纳米磁体被认为具有很高的超高密度磁数据存储系统的潜力。然而，它们的可变性在很大程度上是一个未开发的领域。我们已经确定了一些新的和非常有希望的方向，沿着这些方向，我们可以在用于数据存储设备的可切换分子纳米磁体方面取得实质性进展。此外，该项目的成果将增进我们对具有非无辜配体的不同维度的过渡金属化合物的了解。除了配位化学和分子磁学领域，该项目的结果还可能在量子相干领域以及可能的量子信息处理领域产生影响，以及在量子自旋物理领域。

This project deals with the development and investigation of switchable molecular nanomagnets. The ability to switch functional properties of innovative materials is of the utmost importance for the successful application of these materials in novel devices. Molecular nanomagnets are considered to possess high potential for ultrahigh-density magnetic data storage systems. However, their switchability is a largely unexplored area. We have identified a number of novel and very promising directions along which we can make substantial progress towards switchable molecular nanomagnets for data storage devices. In addition, the outcomes of this project will enhance our knowledge of transition metal compounds of different dimensionalities with non-innocent ligands. Beyond the fields of coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism, the results of this project may also have an impact in the area of quantum coherence and possibly quantum information processing, as well as in quantum spin physics.