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Single molecule magnets line up
The team synthesized molecular magnets that adopt a preferred orientation in a monolayer on a gold surface © Nature
Italian researchers claim that they've bound a single molecule magnet (SMM) to a gold surface, whilst retaining the magnet's properties. The results could help in the development of molecular scale 'spintronics' - electronic devices based on electron spin.
SMMs are metal-organic clusters that display purely individual magnetic properties, with each molecule able to be individually magnetised. This has led to a lot of interest in using SMMs for data storage, and potentially quantum computing, but the magnetisation of the individual molecules is dictated by its orientation - something that has been difficult to control. More...
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