Development and Investigation of Photoswitchable Molecular Magnets Based on Quinonoid Ligands

本计画系关于可切换分子奈米磁铁之发展与研究。转换创新材料功能特性的能力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超高密度磁数据存储系统的高潜力。然而，它们的可切换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前途的方向沿着，我们可以取得实质性的进展，对可切换的分子纳米磁体的数据存储设备。此外，该项目的成果将增强我们对具有非无辜配体的不同维度的过渡金属化合物的知识。除了配位化学和分子磁学领域外，该项目的结果还可能对量子相干性和可能的量子信息处理以及量子自旋物理学领域产生影响。

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.