POTSDAM -- Research by Clarkson University Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science Dr. Mario Wriedt is featured on the cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The work, entitled “Direct Imaging of Isolated Single-Molecule Magnets in Metal–Organic Frameworks,” reveals groundbreaking results that could lead to practical spintronic applications such as ultrahigh-density data storage and quantum computing.

The work promotes possible practical applications involving the magnetic bistability of single-molecule magnets for next-generation computer technologies require nanostructuring, organization, and protection of the nanoscale materials in two- or three-dimensional networks to enable read-and-write processes. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), due to their defined and tunable porosity, have been proposed as hosts to facilitate these efforts.

Wriedt and his team at Clarkson collaborated with researchers in the field of the nanostructuration of single molecule magnets from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Texas A&M University, and Northwestern University to pioneer.

“This work has been an exciting venture for us and through it we were able to expand the techniques available to the MOF community and to the field of porous materials to characterize and understand complex systems. It is an honor to have this work recognized and featured on the cover of JACS,” Wriedt said.

The full article can be seen at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.8b11374 .