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EPSRC Reference:	EP/L018470/1
Title:	A modular approach to multi-component molecular assemblies
Principal Investigator:	Winpenny, Professor RE
Other Investigators:	Collison, Dr D McInnes, Professor EJL
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Department:	Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Manchester, The
Scheme:	Standard Research
Starts:	01 February 2014	Ends:	31 January 2017	Value (£):	595,238
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Chemical Structure Chemical Synthetic Methodology Co-ordination Chemistry Quantum Optics & Information
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 17 Oct 2013 EPSRC Physical Sciences Chemistry - October 2013 Announced
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The idea that technologically advanced devices could be made by chemistry is appealing because chemistry is generally less demanding in use of energy than more conventional nanofabrication approaches. This work falls into this general area. The aim of the work is to design the molecular components that could be assembled, in the long term, into useful devices. The major difficulties are to understand the influence of one component on another in detail, and to this end we will make and study assemblies starting with assemblies where there are two components - a qubit (the quantum equivalent of the bit used in conventional computing) and a switchable molecule; our aim is to understand what happens to the qubit when the switch is on and off, and hence we can chose which switches are suitable for use with qubits. From the assemblies with two components we will move to more complicated assemblies, containing two distinct qubits and two distinct switches. The materials will be studied using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, which is extremely sensitive to the behaviour of single electron spins. Single electron spins can, at the simplest level, be regarded as magnets and the EPR experiment involves using microwaves to flip the electron from having its local magnetic moment aligned with an external field to aligned opposed to the external field. We can use the results to find out if single electrons are communicating with other electrons, and with sophisticated experiments can make specific electrons adopt specific orientations.
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