Molecular Materials: From Design to Magnetism

纳米材料有着广泛的应用，几乎渗透到现代技术的各个方面。随着数字时代的飞速发展和对小型化的追求，对新型纳米材料的探索变得更加迫切。纳米磁性材料代表了这一研究中令人兴奋的子集，并有望为更快、更低功耗的电子产品、更高密度的数据存储和新颖的磁分离方法开辟道路，仅举几例。我们的研究方向是实现新型纳米磁性材料，将有趣的磁性与其他纳米尺度特征（如电子特性）相结合。研究工作将集中在三个领域；首先，研究了高能势垒纯镧系单分子磁体的合成；其次是多功能杂化材料，最后是磁性金属有机框架（MMOFs）的主客体化学。在第一个研究项目中，高能势垒smm将从希夫基配体和镧系离子中分离出来，以达到更实用的阻断温度。第二个研究领域将使用构建块方法来生成混合材料，这种混合材料可以随着光、压力或温度的变化而改变其磁性。一系列纳米磁性和可切换系统（SCO和光化学诱导）构建块将被合成并随后合并产生0-3D杂化材料。第三个研究领域将集中于将客体分子引入多孔Co-MMOF。除了增强MMOFs的性能外，客体分子如光敏间苯二酚、氧氨酸将提供新的功能。我们的研究代表了一种独特的方法来开发和理解纳米磁性材料，并将揭示对其独特性质的新见解，并可能为商业应用提供前进的道路。

Nanomaterials have wide-ranging applications and permeate almost every aspect of modern technology. With the tremendous growth of the digital age and the drive towards miniaturization the quest for new nanomaterials is even more imperative. Nano-magnetic materials represent an exciting sub-set in this search and promise to open the way to faster and lower-power electronics, higher density data storage and novel magnetic separation methods to name but a few applications. Our research is directed towards the realization of novel nano-magnetic materials, which couple interesting magnetic properties with other nanoscale features such as electronic properties. Research efforts will be focused in three areas; firstly, on the synthesis of high-energy barrier lanthanide only Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs); secondly on multifunctional hybrid materials and finally on host-guest chemistry in magnetic metal-organic frameworks (MMOFs). In the first research program, high-energy barrier SMMs will be isolated from Schiff based ligands and lanthanide ions to achieve more practical blocking temperatures. A building block approach will be used in the second research area to generate hybrid materials that can change their magnetic properties upon changes in light, pressure, or temperature. A series of nano-magnetic and switchable system (SCO and photochemically induced) building blocks will be synthesized and subsequently amalgamated to yield 0-3D hybrid materials. The third research area will focus on introducing guest molecules into a porous Co-MMOF. Guest molecules such as light sensitive resorufin, oxonine will offer new functionalities in addition to enhancing the MMOFs properties. Our research represents a unique approach to the development and understanding of nano-magnetic materials and will reveal new insights into their unique properties and potentially provide the way forward to commercial application.