Magnetism, Conductivity and the Interplay between these Properties in d, p and f block Materials with Organocyanide Ligands

在这个由化学部门的大分子、超分子和纳米化学项目资助的项目中，德州农工大学的Kim Dunbar将寻求理解导致分子磁性和导电性共存的结构和组成参数。该方法是创建过渡金属和镧系离子的二元扩展固体或与四氰喹二甲烷（TCNQ）及其全氟（TCNQF4）， TCNQCl2和TCNQBr2类似物的自由基阴离子的配合物。所得化合物的结构将被确定并与它们的磁性和导电性相关联。更广泛的影响包括对学生的多学科培训，让学生接触到国际合作，评判当地的科学竞赛，在Brazos Valley儿童博物馆举办动手展览，以及启动先前审查期间的磁力网站。这项工作将扩大化学的曲目，可用于从分子成分开始创造磁性和导电材料。这些研究的结果可能对磁性材料重要的各种应用产生许多重要的长期影响，包括非易失性存储器和自旋电子学。

In this project funded by the Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Kim Dunbar of the Texas A&M University will seek to understand the structural and composition parameters that lead to the coexistence of molecular magnetism and conductivity in the same extended framework material. The approach is to create binary extended solids of transition metal and lanthanide cations or complexes with radical anions of tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) and its perfluoro(TCNQF4), TCNQCl2 and TCNQBr2 analogs. The structures of the resulting compounds will be determined and correlated with their magnetic and conductive properties. The broader impacts involve multidisciplinary training of students, exposure of the students to international collaboration, judging local science fair competitions, setting up hands-on exhibits at the Brazos Valley Children's Museum, and launching the magnetism website from the prior review period.This work will expand the repertoire of chemistry that can be used to create magnetic and conducting materials starting with molecular components. The results of these studies could have many important long term impacts on a variety of applications in which magnetic materials are important, including non-volatile memory and spintronics.