Rapid solidification by planar flow casting has been found to have introduced deficiencies, viz. partial crystallinity, air pockets and compositional difference in the ribbons of rapidly solidified Ti42⋅9Cu57⋅1 alloy. In order to investigate the effects of these deficiencies on the corrosion of rapidly solidified Ti42⋅9Cu57⋅1 alloy ribbons, electrochemical behaviour of alloy ribbons has been in...

Alloy is a specification language based on a relational firstorder logic with built-in operators for transitive closure, set cardinality, and integer arithmetic. The Alloy Analyzer checks Alloy specifications automatically with respect to bounded domains. Thus, while suitable for finding counterexamples, it cannot, in general, provide correctness proofs. This paper presents Kelloy, a tool for v...

Reaction of Dy(hfac)(3)·2H(2)O (hfac = hexafluoroacetyl acetonate) with 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)nitronyl nitroxide (NITPhOH) and 2-(5-bromo-2-hydroxyphenyl)nitronyl nitroxide (NIT5BrPhOH) yielded [Dy(2)(hfac)(4)(NITPhO)(2)] 1 and [Dy(2)(hfac)(4)(NIT5BrPhO)(2)] 2, respectively. These compounds are phenoxo-O bridged binuclear complexes with the radical unit of a ligand coordinated to a single Dy. The ...

The recent identification of the dysprosium titanate compound Dy2T i2O7 as a “Spin-Ice”, i.e. the spin analog of regular entropic ice of Pauling, has created considerable excitement. The ability to manipulate spins using magnetic fields gives a unique advantage over regular ice in these systems, and has been used to study the recovery of entropy. Predicted magnetization plateaus have been obser...

Two one-dimensional (1-D) chain complexes with pentagonal bipyramidal Dy(III) centers have been synthesized and magnetically characterized. Field-induced single molecule magnet behavior has been revealed in both compounds, which is still rarely reported in a lanthanide compound with a pentagonal bipyramidal coordination geometry. Their crystal field parameters and orientations of the magnetic e...

The reaction of [α-P₂W15O56]12- with MnII and DyIII in an aqueous basic solution led to the isolation of an all inorganic heterometallic aggregate Na10(OH₂)42[{Dy(H₂O)₆}₂Mn₄P₄W30O112(H₂O)₂]·17H₂O (Dy₂Mn₄-P₂W15). Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed that Dy₂Mn₄-P₂W15 crystallizes in the triclinic system with space group P 1 ¯ , and consists of a tetranuclear manganese(II)-substituted sandwi...

With the coordination geometry of DyIII being relatively fixed, oxygen and sulfur atoms were used to replace one porphyrin pyrrole nitrogen atom of sandwich complex [(Bu)4N][DyIII(Pc)(TBPP)] [Pc = dianion of phthalocyanine, TBPP = 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[(4-tert-butyl)phenyl]porphyrin]. The energy barrier of the compounds was enhanced three times, with the order of DyIII(Pc)(STBPP) > DyIII(Pc)(OTBP...

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...