Luminescent single-molecule magnet of metallofullerene DyErScN@Ih-C80

Mingzhe Nie, Jin Xiong, Chong Zhao, Haibing Meng, Kun Zhang, Yibo Han, Jie Li, Bingwu Wang, Lai Feng, Chunru Wang*, Taishan Wang

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Abstract

Magneto-luminescent molecules have significant applications in data storage and quantum computing. However, design of these bi-functional molecules coupled with magnetic behavior and photoluminescence is still challenging. In this work, we report a metallofullerene DyErScN@Ih-C80 exhibiting single-molecule magnet (SMM) behavior and near-infrared emission. For DyErScN@Ih-C80, two functional lanthanide metal ions of Dy3+ (SMM function) and Er3+ (luminescent function) are integrated inside a fullerene cage using a trimetallic nitride template, and its structure has been unambiguously characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Magnetic measurements revealed that DyErScN@Ih-C80 behaves as a SMM with a blocking temperature up to 9 K resulting from the intramolecular magnetic interaction between Dy3+ and Er3+ ions. Moreover, DyErScN@Ih-C80 exhibits temperature-dependent near-infrared emission around 1.5 μm with multiple splitting peaks from Er3+, which arises from the influence of Dy3+ ion. This study provides a new strategy to synthesize new magneto-luminescent molecule materials. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1727-1731
Number of pages5
JournalNano Research
Volume12
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • metallofullerene
  • near-infrared photoluminescence
  • single-molecule magnet

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