How molecules become magnetic … and the resulting wonderland

Michel Verdaguer, Françoise Villain

Laboratoire Chimie Inorganique et Matériaux Moléculaires

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France *


In everyday life, the word “magnetism” most often refers to solid materials, metals, alloys, oxides. As for molecules, they are considered to be isolated, non-magnetic objects. Nevertheless, to be or not to be (magnetic) is not the appropriate question: everything is magnetic; the true problem lies in determining how. The purpose of this lecture is to illustrate the magnetism of molecules through some experiments.

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