Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2013 Sep 2;371(2000):20120316. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0316. Print 2013 Oct 13.
Molecular nanomagnets have been undergoing development for 20 years since the first single-molecule magnet (SMM), Mn₁₂Ac, was characterized as the molecule-behaved magnet. The multi-disciplinary scientists promoted the magnetic characteristics to be more suitable for use in information science and spintronics. The concept of molecular nanomagnets has also evolved to include single-chain magnets (SCMs), single-ion magnets (SIMs) and even magnetic molecules that showed only slow magnetic relaxation, in addition to the initial cluster-type SMMs. In this review, several aspects, including SMMs, SCMs and SIMs, are introduced briefly through some representative examples. In particular, the contribution of Chinese chemists is highlighted in the design, synthesis and understanding of various types of molecular nanomagnets.
分子纳米磁体自第一个单分子磁体（SMM）Mn₁₂Ac 被表征为分子行为磁体以来，已经发展了 20 年。多学科科学家促进了磁性特性更加适合信息科学和自旋电子学的应用。分子纳米磁体的概念也已经发展到包括单链磁体（SCMs）、单离子磁体（SIMs），甚至只有缓慢磁弛豫的磁性分子，除了最初的簇型 SMMs 之外。在这篇综述中，通过一些代表性的例子，简要介绍了 SMMs、SCMs 和 SIMs 等几个方面。特别是，中国化学家在各种类型的分子纳米磁体的设计、合成和理解方面做出了突出贡献。
