| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/H64811/01 |
| Title: |
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF NEW INORGANIC MATERIALS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Battle, Professor P |
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Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1992 |
Ends: |
31 December 1995 |
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153,408
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Materials Characterisation |
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We propose to synthesise and characterise new inorganic compounds that show certain types of cooperative magnetic behaviour. The materials we will consider fall into four categories. (i) Low-dimensional, low-moment antiferromagnets whose collective magnetic properties may deviate significantly from those predicted on the basis of the clasical, Neel ground state. Some of these materials may shed light on the anomalous magnetic properties of high temperature superconducting cuprates. (ii) Compounds containing third-row transition metal ions for the elucidation of the balance between localised and delocalised electronic behaviour. Such materials promise to provide new ferromagnets and models for frustration. (iii) Organometallic ferromagnets based on charge-transfer salts derived from M(n-C6R6)2(M=Ti,V,Nb,W and M; R=H,Me But) and TCNE (tetracyanoethene). (iv) Two-dimensional magnets prepared by intercalating MPS3 (M=Cd,Mn,Zn,Ni,Fe and SN) or MX2 (M=Ti,Zr,Ta,Mo and Sn; X=S,Se) with a variety of metallocene molecules. The synthesis and routine characterisation of these materials using SQUID magnetometer is fundamental to the project, but we also plan structural, electronic and magnetic characterisation through x-ray and neutron studies, and electrical conductivity, ESR and mSR measurements.
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