Synthetic Design with Electronic Spins 
Associate Professor Jeffrey Rinehart - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Host: Daniel Gamelin

On the nanoscale, magnetic order gives way to a fundamentally different behavior, enhancing the role of phonon coupling and giving rise to superparamagnetism, a distinct behavior combining the large moment of collective permanent magnetism with the equilibrium kinetics of paramagnetism. Superparamagnetism has rich functionality, finding applications at the intersections of diverse fields such as biomedicine, electronics, sensing, imaging, rheology, and catalysis. Further size reduction into the molecular regime, even down to a single magnetic atom, has been shown to support superparamagnetism, adding the possibility for new fundamental behavior and functionality based on the quantized nature of the spin states. This talk will explore our work in both nanoscale and molecular superparamagnetism with a specific focus on the design and verification of models for synthetic control of the wavefunction.

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