| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K52034/01 |
| Title: |
INORGANIC AND METAL-ORGANIC CONDUCTORS AND MAGNETS: RENEWAL OF SPECIAL RESEARCH GRANT GR/J02865 |
| 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 1995 |
Ends: |
31 January 1998 |
Value (£): |
477,094
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Chemical Synthetic Methodology |
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. We will also identify unusual ground states such as spin-Peierls systems and both charge and spin density waves. The classes of 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 magnetic exchange interactions. A.c. and d.c conductivity of single crystals and magnetic susceptibility and magnetism up to 7T will be measured from 300 - 3K. More specialised physical studies such as magnetoresistance and pressure dependence will be done by collaborations in Oxford, Cambridge and Nijmegen. A facility based on our MPMS7 SQUID magnetometer will be made available to external research groups for measurement of bulk magnetic properties.
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http://www.rigb.org |