Stable radicals and their metal complexes

磁铁在我们的日常生活中有着极其广泛的用途。磁铁的使用从非常古老的应用（罗盘针）到非常现代的应用（磁共振成像，信息技术材料）。大多数磁铁都是纯金属的；然而，近年来，人们对基于根本不同（非金属）材料的磁铁的设计和制造产生了极大的兴趣。这是一个艰巨的挑战，但对于基础研究和新磁性材料可能产生的潜在技术应用来说，这是一个值得的挑战。本提案中提出的研究目标是探索可能成为新一代磁铁有用“构建块”的新分子。将研究这些分子的基本性质，并提出将“构建块”组装成具有新的和不寻常磁性质的材料的方法。这些材料的磁性能将使用广泛的技术进行探索。通过与这些材料的结构进行性能比较，这项研究可能最终导致生产具有改进磁性能或完全新性能的材料。

Magnets find an incredibly broad range of uses in our everyday lives. The uses of magnets stem from very old applications (compass needles) to very modern ones(magnetic resonance imaging, materials for information technology). Most magnets are based exclusively on metals; however, in recent years there has been a tremendous interest in the design and creation of magnets based on fundamentally different (non-metallic)materials. This is a formidable challenge, but a worthwhile one for both basic research and for the potential technological applications that may arise from new magnetic materials. The goals of the research presented in this proposal are to explore new molecules that may be useful "building blocks" for a new generation of magnets. The fundamental properties of these molecules will be studied, and methods of assembling the "building blocks" into materials with new and unusual magnetic properties are proposed. The magnetic properties of these materials will be explored using a wide range of techniques. By comparing properties to the structures of these materials, this research may ultimately lead to the prodution of materials with iproved magnetic properties or completely new properties altogether.