Stable radicals and their metal complexes

磁铁在我们的日常生活中有着令人难以置信的广泛用途。磁铁的用途源于非常古老的应用(指南针)和非常现代的应用(磁共振成像、信息技术材料)。大多数磁体完全基于金属；然而，近年来，人们对基于根本不同的(非金属)材料的磁体的设计和创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的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。这项提案中提出的研究目标是探索新的分子，这些分子可能是新一代磁铁的有用“构件”。我们将研究这些分子的基本性质，并提出将“积木”组装成具有新的和不寻常的磁性的材料的方法。将使用广泛的技术来探索这些材料的磁性。通过将这些材料的性能与结构进行比较，这项研究最终可能导致生产出具有改进的磁性或完全新的性能的材料。

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.