Molecule-based magnets

Molecule-based magnets (MBMs) or molecular magnets are a class of materials capable of displaying ferromagnetism and other more complex magnetic phenomena. This class expands the materials properties typically associated with magnets to include low density, transparency, electrical insulation, and low-temperature fabrication, as well as combine magnetic ordering with other properties such as photoresponsiveness. Essentially all of the common magnetic phenomena associated with conventional transition-metal magnets and rare-earth magnets can be found in molecule-based magnets.[1][2] Prior to 2011, MBMs were seen to exhibit "magnetic ordering with Curie temperature (Tc) exceeding room temperature".[2][3]

  1. ^ [dead link] Molecule-Based Magnets Materials Research Society Retrieved on 20 December 2007
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  3. ^ Weber, Birgit; Jäger, Ernst-G. (2009). "Structure and Magnetic Properties of Iron(II/III) Complexes with N2O22-Coordinating Schiff Base Like Ligands (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 4/2009)". European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2009 (4): 455. doi:10.1002/ejic.200990003.