Organic- and molecule-based magnets

 

JOEL S MILLER

Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,

UT 84112-0850, USA

E-mail: jsmiller@chem.utah.edu

 

Abstract.  The discovery of organic- and molecule-based magnets has

led to design and synthesis of several families with

magnetic ordering temperatures as high as

$\sim$125$^{\circ}$C.  Examples of soft  and hard magnets

with coercivities as high as 27 kOe have also been

reported.  Examples from our laboratory of organic-based

magnets using the tetracyanoethylene  radical anion,

[TCNE]$^{\bullet -}$, are discussed.  In addition, several

molecule-based magnets based on Prussian Blue structured materials

as well as dicyanamide are discussed.

 

Keywords. Magnetism; magnet; hysteresis; organic magnet.

 

PACS No. 75.50.-y