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SYMO: Symposium Magnetic/Organic Interfaces and Molecular Magnetism

SYMO 1: Magnetic/Organic Interfaces and Molecular Magnetism

SYMO 1.4: Invited Talk

Monday, March 31, 2014, 11:15–11:45, HSZ 02

Interfacing single-molecule magnets with metals — •Andrea Cornia¹, Valeria Lanzilotto², Luigi Malavolti², Matteo Mannini², Mauro Perfetti², Luca Rigamonti¹, and Roberta Sessoli² — ¹Dip. di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia & INSTM, Modena, Italy — ²Dip. di Chimica U. Schiff, Univ. di Firenze & INSTM, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

Encoding and manipulating information through the spin degrees of freedom of individual molecules are central challenges in molecular scale electronics. With their large magnetic moment and long spin relaxation time, single molecule magnets (SMMs) are of special importance in this field. The electrical addressing of individual SMMs is now well within reach using scanning probe methods, which require organizing molecules on electrically conductive surfaces [1,2]. Herein we present the latest achievements in the deposition of SMMs on metal substrates, like ultraflat surfaces [3] and nanoparticles [4]. Special emphasis is placed on the design of molecular structures that withstand processing by solution [3,4] or vapour-phase [5,6] methods as well as on chemical strategies for controlling molecular orientation. Rewardingly, these efforts have shown that the distinctive property of SMMs, i.e. slow spin relaxation, can persist in metal-wired molecules [3,4].

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