Recent Developments in Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets

Jingjing Lu; Mei Guo; Jinkui Tang

doi:10.1002/asia.201701032

Recent Developments in Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets

Chem Asian J. 2017 Nov 2;12(21):2772-2779. doi: 10.1002/asia.201701032. Epub 2017 Oct 16.

Authors

Jingjing Lu^{1

2}, Mei Guo^{1

3}, Jinkui Tang¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P.R. China.
² University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P.R. China.
³ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P.R. China.

PMID: 28862379
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201701032

Abstract

Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) exhibiting slow relaxation of magnetization of purely molecular origin are highly attractive owing to their potential applications in spintronic devices, high-density information storage, and quantum computing. In particular, lanthanide SMMs have been playing a major role in the advancement of this field because of the large intrinsic magnetic anisotropy of lanthanide metal ions. Herein, some recent breakthroughs that are changing the perspective of the field are highlighted, with special emphasis on synthetic strategies towards the design of high-performance SMMs.

Keywords: coordination modes; lanthanides; magnetic properties; quantum tunneling; single-molecule magnets.

Publication types

Review