Putting the Squeeze on Molecule-Based Magnets

任何物质的物理性质如何随着其结构的变化而变化，这是科学中需要回答的一个根本性的重要问题。如果能够理解这种关系，那么就可以利用它以特定的方式调整属性，使材料在一系列重要的商业应用中有用。在化学中，一个非常重要的关系是结构和磁性之间的关系。磁性材料用于计算机硬盘驱动器和移动电子设备的信息存储，用于医院的核磁共振扫描仪和癌症的诊断和治疗，用于安全行业的机场扫描仪，用于外层空间研究的分析仪器的冷却。在任何磁性材料进入工业市场之前，必须研究和理解分子结构和磁性行为之间的基本关系。最好的方法是对材料施加压力并监测其磁响应。在这个研究项目中，我们将继续研究我们的核心化学项目，重点关注各种重要的磁性材料在压力下，采用广泛的互补表征技术。我们还将扩大研究范围，对更多迄今尚未开发的外来材料进行高风险、高回报的可行性研究。例如，极端条件下磁性纳米颗粒的应用以及微孔和介孔磁铁的主客体化学。我们将聘请最优秀的新研究人员，以探索雄心勃勃和投机性的新项目，聘请具有团队目前未涵盖领域专业知识/技能的PDRAs -例如，增加理论专业知识以涵盖广泛的计算。PDRAs将被允许在该奖项的主题内探索他们自己的想法。反应性项目将允许我们对自己的研究或来自国际团体的令人兴奋和意想不到的新发现做出快速反应，探索性项目将允许潜在的突破性研究想法，但技术风险很高。该平台赠款将确保英国极端条件研究和CSEC的高知名度，保持其在高压科学前沿的地位。整个平台团队的参与将加强国际合作，并将促进与其他国际领先团体的新联系。邀请研究讲师和与这些团体交换研究人员将是进一步的好处。平台奖还将增强我们为PDRAs提供的培训的跨学科性质。在一个共同的团队中一起工作将提供一个刺激的氛围，以产生新的想法和世界领先的极端条件研究发现。

How the physical properties of any material change as their structures change is a fundamentally important question to answer in science. If this relationship can be understood, it can then be exploited to tune properties in a specific manner, making the material useful in a range of important commercial applications. In chemistry one very important relationship is that between structure and magnetism. Magnetic materials find use in information storage in computer hard-drives and mobile electronic devices, in hospitals in MRI scanners and in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, in the security industry where they are employed in airport scanners, and in outer-space research where they are used in the cooling of analytical instrumentation. Before any magnetic material can be taken to the industrial marketplace the fundamental relationship between molecular structure and magnetic behaviour must be examined and understood. The best way of doing this is to apply pressure to the material and monitor its magnetic response. In this program of research we will continue to examine our core chemistry projects focusing on a variety of important magnetic materials under pressure, employing a breadth of complimentary characterisation techniques. We will also expand our research to examine high risk, high reward feasibility studies on more exotic, hitherto unexplored materials. For example, the application of extreme conditions to magnetic nanoparticles and the host-guest chemistry of micro- and mesoporous magnets. We will hire the best new researchers as they become available in order to explore ambitious and speculative new projects, employing PDRAs with expertise/skills in areas not currently covered by the team - for example the addition of theoretical expertise to cover a wide range of calculations. The PDRAs will be given licence to explore their own ideas within the theme of the award. Reactive projects will permit rapid response to exciting and unexpected new discoveries from our own research or from international groups, and exploratory projects will allow potentially ground-breaking research ideas with a high degree of technical risk. The platform grant will ensure a high profile for UK extreme conditions research and for CSEC, maintaining its position at the forefront of high pressure science. International collaborations will be strengthened by involving the whole Platform team, and will facilitate new links to other internationally-leading groups. Inviting research lecturers and exchanging research staff with such groups will be a further benefit. The Platform award will also augment the cross-disciplinary nature of the training that we can provide to our PDRAs. Working together in a common group will provide a stimulating atmosphere to generate new ideas and world-leading discoveries in extreme conditions research.