Advanced Materials, Vol.25, No.20, 2816-2820, 2013
Magnetic Cooling at a Single Molecule Level: a Spectroscopic Investigation of Isolated Molecules on a Surface
A sub-monolayer distribution of isolated molecular Fe-14(bta)(6) nanomagnets is deposited intact on a Au(111) surface and investigated by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy. The entropy variation with respect to the applied magnetic field is extracted from the magnetization curves and evidences high magnetocaloric values at the single molecule level.
Keywords:molecular nanomagnets;magnetocaloric effect;x-ray magnetic circular dichroism;surface deposition