Volume 132, Issue 26 pp. 10697-10705
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Coercive Fields Above 6 T in Two Cobalt(II)–Radical Chain Compounds

Dr. Xiaoqing Liu

Dr. Xiaoqing Liu

Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Xiaowen Feng

Dr. Xiaowen Feng

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Katie R. Meihaus

Dr. Katie R. Meihaus

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA

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Xixi Meng

Xixi Meng

Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 China

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Yuan Zhang

Yuan Zhang

Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 China

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Liang Li

Liang Li

Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 China

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Prof. Dr. Jun-Liang Liu

Prof. Dr. Jun-Liang Liu

Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Prof. Dr. Kasper S. Pedersen

Prof. Dr. Kasper S. Pedersen

Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

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Dr. Lukas Keller

Dr. Lukas Keller

Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

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Prof. Dr. Wei Shi

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Wei Shi

Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 China

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Prof. Dr. Yi-Quan Zhang

Prof. Dr. Yi-Quan Zhang

Jiangsu Key Laboratory for NSLSCS, School of Physical Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023 China

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Prof. Dr. Peng Cheng

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Peng Cheng

Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (MOE), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 China

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Prof. Dr. Jeffrey R. Long

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey R. Long

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA

Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA

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First published: 14 April 2020
Citations: 6

Abstract

Lanthanide permanent magnets are widely used in applications ranging from nanotechnology to industrial engineering. However, limited access to the rare earths and rising costs associated with their extraction are spurring interest in the development of lanthanide-free hard magnets. Zero- and one-dimensional magnetic materials are intriguing alternatives due to their low densities, structural and chemical versatility, and the typically mild, bottom-up nature of their synthesis. Here, we present two one-dimensional cobalt(II) systems Co(hfac)2(R-NapNIT) (R-NapNIT=2-(2′-(R-)naphthyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide, R=MeO or EtO) supported by air-stable nitronyl nitroxide radicals. These compounds are single-chain magnets and exhibit wide, square magnetic hysteresis below 14 K, with giant coercive fields up to 65 or 102 kOe measured using static or pulsed high magnetic fields, respectively. Magnetic, spectroscopic, and computational studies suggest that the record coercivities derive not from three-dimensional ordering but from the interaction of adjacent chains that compose alternating magnetic sublattices generated by crystallographic symmetry.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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