Magnetic Nanoscale Materials and Exotic Spin Structures: A 65th Birthday Gift to Annie K. Powell
A special issue of Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 108
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polyoxometalate (POM); molecular magnetism; catalysis; 3d-POMs; 4f-POMs; 3d-4f-POMs; polyoxometalate-based inorganic frameworks (POMIF); extended frameworks
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Dear Colleagues,
In honour of Prof. Annie K. Powell's (FRSC) 65th birthday, a Special Issue on magnetic nanoscale materials will be published. Prof. Annie Powell received her Ph.D. from Manchester University in 1985 for work on iron(III) complexes under the supervision of Dr. Mike Ware. She went on to pursue postdoctoral research with Prof. Heinrich Vahrenkamp and began her independent academic career in 1988 as a lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She moved to the University of East Anglia in 1989 and then to KIT in 1999 as a full professor of supramolecular chemistry.
In addition to being an Honorary Professor at the University of Otago (NZ), she has served two four-year terms as a trustee of the Royal Society of Chemistry and served a three-year term on the REF 2014 panel.
A significant achievement of her research over the past 35-plus years has been the development of the concept of the coordination cluster, an entity that can be used to create a seemingly infinite variety of novel materials. Her particular interests are those that exhibit magnetically interesting properties, ranging from single-molecule magnets using both organic and inorganic POM ligands, spin-crossover systems, and exotic spin structures such as single-molecule toroids.
Dr. Masooma Ibrahim
Dr. Jonas Braun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lanthanide chemistry
- single molecule magnets and exotic spin structures
- coordination clusters and magnetic materials
- polyoxometallates
- 3d-4f compounds
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