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Magnetic Slow Relaxation in a Metal-Organic Framework Made of Chains of Ferromagnetically Coupled Single-Molecule
Gang Huang1, Guglielmo Fernandez-Garcia2,3, Insa Badiane1,4
1Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes) UMR 6226, 35000, Rennes, France.
Abstract:
We report the study of a Dy-based metal-organic framework (MOF) with unprecedented magnetic properties. The compound is made of nine-coordinated DyIII magnetic building blocks (MBBs) with poor intrinsic single-molecule magnet behavior. However, the MOF architecture constrains the MBBs in a one-dimensional structure that induces a ferromagnetic coupling between them. Overall, the material shows a magnetic slow relaxation in absence of external static field and a hysteretic behavior at 0.5 K. Low-temperature magnetic studies, diamagnetic doping, and ab initio calculations highlight the crucial role played by the Dy-Dy ferromagnetic interaction. Overall, we report an original magnetic object at the frontier between single-chain magnets and single-molecule magnets that host intrachain couplings that cancel quantum tunneling between the MBBs. This compound is evidence that a bottom-up approach through MOF design can induce spontaneous organization of MBBs able to produce remarkable molecular magnetic materials.
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