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EPSRC Reference:	GR/J02865/01
Title:	INORGANIC AND METAL - ORGANIC CONDUCTORS AND MAGNETS
Principal Investigator:	Day, Professor P
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Department:	Davy Faraday Research Laboratory
Organisation:	Royal Institution of Great Britain
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 February 1993	Ends:	31 January 1995	Value (£):	519,452
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Chemical Synthetic Methodology Materials Characterisation Materials Synthesis & Growth
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A four year rolling programme is proposed at the Royal Institution with the aims (1) of synthesising, crystallizing and determining structural and physical properties of novel low-dimensional inorganic and metal-organic compounds with unusual combinations of electrical conduction and magnetism (2) of providing a service to the Colleges of London University and other laboratories in south east England for measurement of bulk magnetic susceptibility and magnetization of powders and single crystals over a wide range of temperature and magnetic field. Targets of the synthesis programme are (1) among conductors, a molecular magnetic superconductor, an antiferromagnetic molecular metal and a superconducting molecular multilayer with alternating insulating layers of variable thickness (2) among insulators, ferromagnetic multilayers containing reorientable and mesomorphic molecular groupings with interlayer spacing up to 50A, and weakly ferromagnetic organic-inorganic composites (3) Mixed valence Bi layer compounds as potential superconductors (4) Fulleride charge transfer salts by electrochemical synthesis. For the conductors the principle physical measurements are transport, magnetotransport, Meissner effect, critical field and Hall effect while for the insulating magnets, high temperature susceptibility and low temperature magnetization including critical behaviour, domain reorientation and hysterisis. Wide UK and international collaboration is proposed to obtain complementary physical data, eg high pressure structure and transport, high and very high field Schubnikov-de Haas and IR and Raman spectra.
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