Giant Single-Molecule Magnets: A Mn84 Torus and its Supramolecular Nanotubes

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2004-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404625v1

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 43, 2117 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

16 pages, 4 figures

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The discovery a decade ago that individual molecules can function as magnetizable magnets provided a new, 'bottom-up' approach to nanoscale magnetic materials, and such molecules have since been called single-molecule magnets (SMMs). Each molecule functions as a nanoscale, single-domain magnetic particle that, below its blocking temperature (TB), exhibits the classical macroscale property of a magnet, namely magnetization hysteresis. In addition, they straddle the classical/quantum interface in also displaying quantum tunnelling of magnetization (QTM) and quantum phase interference, the properties of the atomic or microscale. SMMs have a number of potential applications, including very high density information storage, where each bit would be stored as the magnetization orientation of an individual molecule, and as quantum bits for quantum computing, taking advantage of the quantum superposition of states provided by the QTM. To facilitate development of techniques for addressing individual SMMs for such applications, and other reasons, it has been of interest to us to explore whether very large examples (by molecular standards) could be synthesized. In effect, can the molecular (or 'bottom-up') approach reach the size regime of the classical (or 'top-down') approach to nanoscale magnetic materials? Indeed, here we sure that a giant Mn84 SMM can be prepared with a torus structure of 4 nm dimensions, that it displays both magnetization hysteresis and QTM, and that it crystallizes as highly ordered, supramolecular nanotubes.

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