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Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 289-290 (1-4) (2000) pp. 115-118
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Muon studies of molecular magnetism

S.J. Blundell a * sjb@ermine.ox.ac.uk, A. Husmann a, Th. Jestädt a, F.L. Pratt a,b, I.M. Marshall a, B.W. Lovett a, M. Kurmoo c, T. Sugano d and W. Hayes a

a Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
b RIKEN-RAL, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
c IPCMS, 23 rue du Loess, BP 20/CR, 67037 Strasbourg Cedex, France
d Department of Chemistry, Meiji Gakuin University, Kamikurata, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama 244, Japan

Abstract

We present the results of µSR experiments on a variety of molecular magnetic materials, either purely organic or combinations of transition metal ions and organic groups, which have been recently prepared. In a purely organic metamagnet, tanol suberate, we have observed a spin precession signal with a temperature dependence which has provided evidence of the two-dimensional nature of the antiferromagnetic ground state. In a family of dicyanamide-based molecular magnets with ordering temperatures of up to 21 K, and in a ferrimagnetic cobalt hydroxide, µSR has been used to study the temperature dependence of the spin fluctuations.

Keywords: Organic magnets; Molecular magnets; Tanol suberate

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