How to Control the Distribution of Anchored, Mn12–Stearate, Single-Molecule Magnets
Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland
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Nanomaterials 2019, 9(12), 1730; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121730
Received: 8 November 2019
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Revised: 22 November 2019
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Accepted: 29 November 2019
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Published: 4 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Nanomaterials Synthesis and Application)
Controlling the distribution of the Mn12–stearate, single-molecule magnets (SMMs) anchored on a select surface is expected to be a new method for tuning its interactions, and an investigation on the magnetic properties of separated magnetic molecules is also lacking. The anchoring of the SMMs at the surface with an assumed statistic distance between each other is not an easy task; nevertheless, in this work, we show a synthesis which allows for this in detail. The immobilization of the Mn12–stearate was demonstrated with the use of FTO glasses and spherical silica as substrates. Based on differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations, we proved the efficiency of the method proposed. We observed continuous decreasing the number of bonds, and afterward, decreasing in the number of immobilized molecules with an increasing the number of spacer units used for separation of the magnetic particles.
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Keywords:
single-molecule magnet; Mn12; surface functionalization; separation
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Laskowska, M.; Pastukh, O.; Kuźma, D.; Laskowski, Ł. How to Control the Distribution of Anchored, Mn12–Stearate, Single-Molecule Magnets. Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 1730. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121730
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Laskowska M, Pastukh O, Kuźma D, Laskowski Ł. How to Control the Distribution of Anchored, Mn12–Stearate, Single-Molecule Magnets. Nanomaterials. 2019; 9(12):1730. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121730
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaskowska, Magdalena, Oleksandr Pastukh, Dominika Kuźma, and Łukasz Laskowski. 2019. "How to Control the Distribution of Anchored, Mn12–Stearate, Single-Molecule Magnets" Nanomaterials 9, no. 12: 1730. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9121730
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