Magnetic nano-chessboard puts itself together: Researchers switch the quantum properties of magnetic molecules
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (Pune, India) have managed to 'turn off' the magnetization of every second molecule in an array of magnetized molecules and thereby create a 'magnetic chessboard'. The magnetic molecules were so constructed that they were able to find their places in the nano-chessboard by themselves. Thus the nano-chessboard effectively built itself together.