A team of UK scientists have made gadolinium and dysprosium discs that can ‘chill well and relax slowly’ with interesting magnetic properties.
 Structure of the gadolinium heptametallic complex |
David Collison and his colleagues from the University of Manchester have designed heptametallic discs (i.e. with 7 metal centers) and have studied their structures and magnetic properties. The dysprosium disc shows single molecule magnetism behaviour and the gadolinum analogue shows a large magnetocaloric effect.
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| Also, are you interested in molecule-based magnetism research? Then take a look at Chem Soc Rev‘s recently published themed issue on Molecule-based Magnets, (Issue 6, 2011) guest edited by Joel Miller and Dante Gatteschi. |  |
