Molecular Nanomagnet Inclusion into a Magnetic Metal-Organic Framework: Solid-State Chemistry for Nano-Driven Materials

by M. Mon, A. Pascual-Alvarez, T. Grancha, J. Cano, J. Ferrando-Soria, F. Lloret, J. Gascon, J. Pasan, D. Armentano, E. Pardo
Year: 2016 ISSN: DOI: 10.1002/chem.201504176

Bibliography

M. Mon, A. Pascual-Alvarez, T. Grancha, J. Cano, J. Ferrando-Soria, F. Lloret, J. Gascon, J. Pasan, D. Armentano, E. Pardo, Chem. Eur. J. 22 (2016) 539-545, Molecular Nanomagnet Inclusion into a Magnetic Metal-Organic Framework: Solid-State Chemistry for Nano-Driven Materials

Abstract

​Single-ion magnets (SIMs) are the smallest possible magnetic devices and are a controllable, bottom-up approach to nanoscale magnetism with potential applications in quantum computing and high-density information storage. In this work, we take advantage of the promising, but yet insufficiently explored, solid-state chemistry of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) to report the single-crystal to single-crystal inclusion of such molecular nanomagnets within the pores of a magnetic MOF. The resulting host–guest supramolecular aggregate is used as a playground in the first in-depth study on the interplay between the internal magnetic field created by the long-range magnetic ordering of the structured MOF and the slow magnetic relaxation of the SIM.

Keywords

Magnetic ordering Metal–organic frameworks Multifunctional materials Quantum tunneling effects Single-ion magnet