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New discovery in the management of molecular magnets

A new study of molecular magnets management takes the cover of the publication "Chemistry: A European Journal. This is the research conducted by researchers at the Institute of Materials Science of Aragon (ICMA), who have managed to sort molecules with cobalt forming a network, so that each unit acts as molecular magnets.This study of molecular magnets management may have use in the development of mass storage of information.

The storage capacity of computers has increased rapidly since its inception due to materials research. This reduces the space unit can store a unit of information. Thus, the hard drives that currently have our computers consist of a housing which is fixed on a magnetic material composed of magnets. The material is divided into small cells that can change the direction of the magnetic field.

With this new development in the behavior as individual molecular magnets allow, for example, storing one bit of information in each molecule. One of the challenges to be achieved with this discovery is that these information units are ordered regularly. The problem is not only, therefore, stored in a small space, but know where the information and how to access it.

Smaller than the nanometer

To make this discovery in the storage of magnets of molecules, the ICMA researchers have worked with self-assembly techniques, as when working with materials so small as a molecule (less than a nanometer), handling techniques usually no longer work.

The magnetic response observed in this system offers other possibilities in the synthesis of polymers of molecular magnets, which is a massive step towards molecular memories. Therefore, the work has been presented at several international conferences and is on the cover of the prestigious scientific journal "Chemistry: A European Journal 'this month.