@article{JRC73122,
	address = {LONDON (ENGLAND)},
	year = {2012},
	author = {Mougel V and Chatelain L and Pécaut J and Caciuffo R and Colineau E and Griveau J and Mazzanti M},
	abstract = {Discrete molecular compounds that exhibit both magnetization hysteresis and slow magnetic relaxation below a characteristic ‘blocking’ temperature are known as single-molecule magnets. These are promising for applications including memory devices and quantum computing, but require higher spin-inversion barriers and hysteresis temperatures than currently achieved. After twenty years of research confined to the d- block transition metals, scientists are moving to the f-block to generate these properties. We have now prepared, by cation-promoted self-assembly, a large 5f–3d U12Mn6 cluster that adopts a wheel topology and exhibits single-molecule magnet behaviour. This uranium-based molecular wheel shows an open magnetic hysteresis loop at low temperature, with a non-zero coercive field (below 4 K) and quantum tunnelling steps (below 2.5 K), which suggests that uranium might indeed provide a route to magnetic storage devices. This molecule also represents an interesting model for actinide nanoparticles occurring in the environment and in spent fuel separation cycles. 
		},
	title = {Uranium and Manganese Assembled in a Wheel-Shaped Nanoscale Single-Molecule Magnet with High Spin-Reversal Barrier},
	type = {Full paper},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/nchem/archive/subject_nchem_s9_122012.html},
	volume = {4},
	number = {12},
	journal = {NATURE CHEMISTRY},
	pages = {1011-1017},
	issn = {1755-4330},
	publisher = {NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP},
	doi = {10.1038/NCHEM.