Institut Néel, CNRS & Université Joseph Fourier, BP 166, 25 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
ACS Nano. 2013 Jul 23;7(7):6225-36. doi: 10.1021/nn402968k. Epub 2013 Jul 5.
Due to outstanding mechanical and electronic properties, carbon nanotube nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) were recently proposed as ultrasensitive magnetometers for single-molecule magnets (SMM). In this article, we describe a noninvasive grafting of a SMM on a carbon nanotube NEMS, which conserves both the mechanical properties of the carbon nanotube NEMS and the magnetic properties of the SMM. We will demonstrate that the nonlinearity of a carbon nanotube's mechanical motion can be used to probe the reversal of a molecular spin, associated with a bis(phthalocyaninato)terbium(III) single-molecule magnet, providing an experimental evidence for the detection of a single spin by a mechanical degree of freedom on a molecular level.
由于具有出色的机械和电子性能,碳纳米管纳机电系统(NEMS)最近被提议作为单分子磁体(SMM)的超灵敏磁力计。在本文中,我们描述了一种将 SMM 非侵入式嫁接到碳纳米管 NEMS 上的方法,这种方法既保留了碳纳米管 NEMS 的机械性能,又保留了 SMM 的磁性能。我们将证明碳纳米管机械运动的非线性可以用来探测分子自旋的反转,这与双(酞菁基)铽(III)单分子磁体有关,为通过分子水平上的机械自由度检测单个自旋提供了实验证据。