Lantern-shaped 3d-4f high-nuclearity clusters with magnetocaloric effect

Qingfang Lin; Jing Li; Yayu Dong; Guangpeng Zhou; You Song; Yan Xu

doi:10.1039/c7dt01978e

Lantern-shaped 3d-4f high-nuclearity clusters with magnetocaloric effect

Dalton Trans. 2017 Aug 14;46(30):9745-9749. doi: 10.1039/c7dt01978e. Epub 2017 Jul 12.

Authors

Qingfang Lin¹, Jing Li, Yayu Dong, Guangpeng Zhou, You Song, Yan Xu

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, P.R. China. yanxu@njtech.edu.cn.

PMID: 28702589
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt01978e

Abstract

Two lantern-shaped, high-nuclearity 3d-4f clusters {Ln₅₂Ni₅₂}(Ln = Gd and Dy) were synthesized by using iminodiacetic acid (H₂IDA) and isonicotinic acid (HIN) as the co-ligand under solvothermal conditions. Magnetic studies show a large magnetocaloric effect (MCE) for the gadolinium analogue.