MMQIP · Molecular Magnets: Coordination Cages, Frameworks and Multifunctional Materials
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-04-14 → 2022-04-13
- EU contribution
- €212,934
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Molecular Magnets: Coordination Cages, Frameworks and Multifunctional Materials
Specific Research Objectives: To build coordination cages and molecule-based framework materials possessing permanent cavities, and to do so with both diamagnetic and paramagnetic metal centres. Further, employ both experimental (NMR, EPR, SQUID magnetometry, single crystal XRD, powder XRD, heat capacity, INS) and theoretical characterisation to identify the appropriate host-guest combinations for attractive magnetic/redox/photo-active behaviours. Importance for Society: Magnetic materials are ubiquitous in modern life, used in technologies as diverse as computers, smartphones and tablets, medical equipment, hybrid cars, wind turbines, and security and communications equipment. They are also of enormous importance in cutting-edge academic chemistry, physics and materials science research, since molecules proffer better, faster, smaller, cleaner, greener, cheaper, and more controllable alternatives to traditional solid-state materials. As such they have the potential to transform, for example, how we store information and how we compute - industries worth $billions to the world economy, where advances in fundamental science can have a transformative technological and economic impact Overall Objective: the aim of the proposal is to construct and fully characterise magnetic coordination capsules, develop magneto-structural relationships and identify candidates suitable for employment in quantum mechanical devices.
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Project objective
The vision is to build molecule-based magnetic coordination cages and their related 3D frameworks possessing permanent cavities capable of hosting magnetic, redox- and photo-active guests for the construction of controllable multifunctional materials with potential application in information storage, quantum computation and molecular spintronics.The specific objectives are:(1) To build coordination cages and molecule-based framework materials possessing permanent cavities with both diamagnetic and paramagnetic metal centres. (2) To employ theoretical modelling to predict the appropriate host-guest combinations. (3) To employ solution-based techniques, particularly NMR spectroscopy, to examine the host-guest chemistry of the diamagnetic cages and frameworks, in tandem with theory to inform what paramagnetic host-guest capsules and frameworks should be targeted. (4) To spectroscopically investigate the solution host-guest behaviour of paramagnetic cages. (5) To construct empty magnetic coordination capsules and molecule-based materials, to elucidate their solid-state structures via single crystal X-ray crystallography, and to investigate their magnetic behavior with a battery of techniques. (6) To examine the magnetic behaviour of cages and framework materials containing redox-active/radical linker ligands in the host framework. (7) To examine the magnetic behaviour of cages and frameworks encapsulating redox/photo-active/magnetic guests. (8) To examine the magnetic properties of cages and frameworks encapsulating guests that can accept numerous electrons and to monitor the effects that a variable number of electric charges placed on the guest has on the static and dynamic magnetic properties of the host. (9) To explore the controlled switching (on/off) of the spin-spin interactions between host and guest via the charge state of the guest.(10) To computationally model all magnetic and spectroscopic data, and to elucidate magneto-structural correlations.
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Participants
- THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH · EdinburghCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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