Lanthanide compounds make for intriguing molecules that are also useful components in fluorescent, catalytically active and magnetic materials — some have even found their way into medicinal applications, for example as MRI contrasting agents owing to their magnetic properties1. Yet this has not always been the case. They had initially been overlooked, owing to their isostructurality and common...

Increasing the temperature at which molecules behave as single-molecule magnets is a serious challenge in molecular magnetism. One of the ways to address this problem is to create the molecules with strongly coupled lanthanide ions. In this work, endohedral metallofullerenes Y2@C80 and Dy2@C80 are obtained in the form of air-stable benzyl monoadducts. Both feature an unpaired electron trapped b...

Using the Schiff-base ligand 1,5-bis(2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)carbonohydrazide (H2hmc), dinuclear and nonanuclear compounds, [Dy2(Hhmc)2(NO3)4]·THF·MeCN (1) and [Dy9(μ3-O)4(μ-OH)6(hmc)4(NO3)4(DMF)4](OH)·H2O·THF·DMF (2) are generated through the addition of different bases, respectively. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed a unique Dy9 core structure of complex 2, and the ma...

There exists in atomic dysprosium a pair of nearly-degenerate levels of opposite parity. These levels are of potential interest for the study of parity non-conservation because the small energy separation enhances level mixing due to weak-interaction processes. In this paper, we review the unique properties of these levels which make them attractive for measurements of parity non-conservation, ...

Pure (S1) and Dy3+-doped α-Fe2O3 (S2 and S3) nanoparticles were prepared by a combustion synthesis method at 700 ºC for 8 h using Fe(acac)3 (Tris(acetylacetonato)Iron(III)) as raw material. Characterizations of the prepared powders were carried out by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). Structural analysis was performed b...

Pure (S1) and Dy3+-doped α-Fe2O3 (S2 and S3) nanoparticles were prepared by a combustion synthesis method at 700 ºC for 8 h using Fe(acac)3 (Tris(acetylacetonato)Iron(III)) as raw material. Characterizations of the prepared powders were carried out by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). Structural analysis was performed b...

We report the microwave assisted synthesis of a bidimensional (2D) MOF formula [Dy(MeCOO)(PhCOO)2]n (1) and its magnetically diluted analogue [La0.9Dy0.1(MeCOO)(PhCOO)2] (1 d). 1 is 2D material with single-ion-magnet (SIM) behaviour d multifunctional, magnetic luminescent material. can be exfoliated into stable nanosheets by sonication.

A novel CaO-based material supported with Ca 3 Al 2 O 6 and Dy was found to show excellent performance as a thermochemical energy storage for use in solar thermal power plants. It retains carbonation conversion capacity of 82.7% period 40 cycles, well exothermic heats reaction 582.2 kJ kg −1 , up seven times greater than other materials the literature. The improved attributed prevention sinteri...