Molecular Magnetism, Molecular Materials and Nanomaterials
Welcome to the web pages of the Murrie research group
Our major motivation is the long-term goal of information storage at the molecular level. If we can use one molecule to store one bit of information, because our magnetic molecules are small (e.g. a few nanometres in size), then we have the materials to make ultra-high-density (i.e. petabit) information storage devices.
These 'magnetic molecules' have a growing list of potential applications in: low temperature magnetic refrigeration; quantum computation; molecular spintronics and nanomedicine.
Read more about our research.
We would like to thank the following for funding:
EPSRC (for current EPSRC funding click here); The Science and Technology Facilities Council; The University of Glasgow; The Nuffield Foundation; The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and SYNERGY.
Latest news:
December 2011 - early Christmas presents from three different scientific panels...
** Neutron beamtime awarded at ILL, Grenoble & at the Bragg Institute, Australia **
** Synchrotron beamtime awarded at the Diamond Light Source **
New paper: invited contribution to a special issue on 'Self-assembly in inorganic chemistry'
Cubic assembly of a geometrically frustrated {Fe12} spin cluster
K. Graham, F. J. Douglas, J. S. Mathieson, S. A. Moggach, J. Schnack and M. Murrie.
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 12271.
