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Tristability in a Light-Actuated Single-Molecule Magnet

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2013
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Title
Tristability in a Light-Actuated Single-Molecule Magnet
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Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2013
DOI 10.1021/ja407332y
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Xiaowen Feng, Corine Mathonière, Ie-Rang Jeon, Mathieu Rouzières, Andrew Ozarowski, Michael L. Aubrey, Miguel I. Gonzalez, Rodolphe Clérac, Jeffrey R. Long

Abstract

Molecules exhibiting bistability have been proposed as elementary binary units (bits) for information storage, potentially enabling fast and efficient computing. In particular, transition metal complexes can display magnetic bistability via either spin-crossover or single-molecule magnet behavior. We now show that the octahedral iron(II) complexes in the molecular salt [Fe(1-propyltetrazole)6](BF4)2, when placed in its high-symmetry form, can combine both types of behavior. Light irradiation under an applied magnetic field enables fully reversible switching between an S = 0 state and an S = 2 state with either up (M(S) = +2) or down (M(S) = -2) polarities. The resulting tristability suggests the possibility of using molecules for ternary information storage in direct analogy to current binary systems that employ magnetic switching and the magneto-optical Kerr effect as write and read mechanisms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 2%
Italy 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Unknown 125 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 29%
Researcher 21 16%
Student > Master 12 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 15 12%
Unknown 26 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 82 63%
Physics and Astronomy 8 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Materials Science 4 3%
Chemical Engineering 2 2%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 28 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 July 2021.
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#2,272,358
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Outputs from Journal of the American Chemical Society
#5,678
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#22,236
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of the American Chemical Society
#63
of 523 outputs
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