The Molecular Materials & Magnetism (M3) team is a research group lead by Rodolphe Clérac since 2001, and composed of Harald Bock, Fabien Durola, Pierre Dechambenoit, Andrej Jancarik, Corine Mathonière, Xavier Brilland and Mathieu Rouzières.
The M3 research group is working at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP), a CNRS scientific center situated on the campus of the Université de Bordeaux.
M3 research ACTIVITIES
The Molecular Materials & Magnetism (M3) team is working on new molecules and molecule-based materials.
From their synthesis to their characterization, in order to promote and control interesting physical properties such as magnetism, electrical conductivity, superconductivity, porosity, spin-crossover, single-molecule and single-chain magnets, magnets…
Five main themes of research are currently being developed.
- Macroconjugated polyaromatic molecules
- Molecule-based magnets and conducting magnets (with high critical temperature)
- Single-molecule and single-chain magnets (and their derivatives) with high blocking temperatures or photo-switching properties
- Spin-crossover and paramagnetic metal-metal bonded complexes
- Magnetic and/or electro-active solutions and liquid-crystals.
In all these projects, our approach is comprehensive, from synthesis to detailed studies of the physical properties and their theoretical description. These different projects benefit from many national and international collaborations and also our involvement in different national and European networks.
Latest news
Vincent Nadurata has been awarded the first QMBx PhD prize for his remarkable works on Molecular magnets !
Scientists manage to chemically adjust the electronic properties of new layered materials
19.07.2022 CNRS Interview: Rodolphe Clérac, 2022 RSC/SCF Lectureship prize in Chemical Sciences from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Rodolphe Clérac received the 2022 RSC/SCF Lectureship prize in Chemical Sciences from the Royal Society of Chemistry, for the development of new research areas in molecular magnetism and contributions to the study of magnetic materials.
Latest publications
[718]. Xiang Li, Dong Zhang, Yuqing Qian, Wenxuan Liu, Corine Mathonière, Rodolphe Clérac, Xin Bao, “Chemical Manipulation of the Spin-Crossover Dynamics through Judicious Metal-Ion Dilution”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 17, 9564-9570, (2023) – 10.1021/jacs.2c13697 – hal-04088054 – (P123-13033)
[717]. Sujit Kamilya, Sakshi Mehta, Mohini Semwal, Rodrigue Lescouëzec, Yanling Li, Jiri Pechousek, Varimalla R. Reddy, Eric Rivière, Mathieu Rouzières, Abhishake Mondal, “ON/OFF Photo(switching) along with Reversible Spin-State Change and Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformation in a Mixed-Valence Fe(II)Fe(III) Molecular System”, Inorganic Chemistry, 62, 23, 8794-8802, (2023) – 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03972 – hal-04207278 – (P123-13045)
[716]. Debaditya Chatterjee, Shuoyuan Huang, Kaichen Gu, Jianzhu Ju, Junguang Yu, Harald Bock, Lian Yu, M. D. Ediger, Paul M. Voyles, “Using 4D STEM to Probe Mesoscale Order in Molecular Glass Films Prepared by Physical Vapor Deposition”, Nano Letters, 23, 5, 2009-2015, (2023) – 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00197 – hal-04238965 – (P123-13050)
[715]. Junguang Yu, Zhenxuan Chen, Caroline Fatina, Debaditya Chatterjee, Harald Bock, Ranko Richert, Paul Voyles, M. D. Ediger, Lian Yu, “Engineering the glass structure of a discotic liquid crystal by multiple kinetic arrests”, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, 20, (2023) – 10.1063/5.0149886 – hal-04238991 – (P123-13039)
[714]. Fabrícia Nunes da Silva, Hugo Marchi Luciano, Carlos H. Stadtlober, Giliandro Farias, Fabien Durola, Juliana Eccher, Ivan H. Bechtold, Harald Bock, Hugo Gallardo, André A. Vieira, “Dissymmetric Triaryltriazines: Small Mass Columnar Glasses”, Chemistry A European Journal, 29, 46, e202301319, (2023) – 10.1002/chem.202301319 – hal-04238980 – (P123-13036)