| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L74255/01 |
| Title: |
ORGANIC 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 1998 |
Ends: |
31 January 2001 |
Value (£): |
489,764
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Materials Characterisation |
Materials Synthesis & Growth |
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New semiconductors, metals, superconductors and magnets built from molecular organic and metal-organic units will be synthesised and crystallised. Structures, and physical properties such as magnetic and transport, will be determined in order to establish the principles governing the relation between the crystal chemistry and bulk physical behaviour. The focus is to combine in the same lattice such disparate properties as superconductivity and magnetism, magnetism and chirality, magnetism and optical transparency or magnetism and mesomorphism. The compound to be studied are charge transfer salts containing alternating layers of organic and inorganic ions, bimetallic organic-bridged networks templated by organic and metal-organic cations and nitronyl-nitroxide molecules substituted with sidechains designed to promote crystallisation as salts. A.c. and d.c. conductivity of single crystals and magnetic susceptibility and magnetisation up to 7T will be measured from 300-2K. More specialised physical studies such as magnetoresistance and pressure dependence will be done by collaborations in Oxford, Cambridge, Bordeaux and Nijmegen. A facility based on an MPMS7 SQUID and Oxford Instruments a.c. susceptometer will be made available to external research groups for measurement of bulk magnetic properties in low (<1mT) and high (7T) applied fields.
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