About Me
A Research Scholar in the field of chemistry. Working with an excellent team in a highly equipped chemistry lab to pool the skills and equipments to achieve research goals in molecular magnetism (Single Molecule Magnet) which will offer personal growth as well as will help to enlighten the future generation and impart maximum to the society
Research Area : Single Molecule Magnet
The technological world has been advancing rapidly, and magnetic materials have a prominent place in this world. Among these, the bistable magnetic molecules have proven to accomplish the requirement of tiny smart materials. Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) are an important class of bistable magnetic molecules. Such magnetic molecules exhibit slow relaxation of magnetization, which arises from a purely molecular origin i.e, they can exist in two different electronic spin states. Despite having very small dimensions they have very high information storage density which makes them applicable for memory devices. Moreover, unlike traditional bits which can store only binary information, SMMs have potential application in quantum qubits because of their quantum nature. SMMs are also potential candidates for molecular spintronics, electronics or magneto-optics, etc. Hence, designing practically applicable SMMs happens to be an important aspect of modern research.
Out of many challenges associated with this field, the most significant one is the fact that extremely low temperature is required to eliminate the processes that result in rapid relaxation of the magnetization. However, practically applicable SMM should work even at room temperature. Significant research has been going on to increase the maximum operating temperature (TB) of these molecules to room temperature. Particularly, our aim is to design low as well as high-coordinated SMMs having high Ueff and blocking temperature by modulating the coordination environment around the metal ions, introducing radical bridging ligand etc. Further, we explore the relaxation dynamics of SMMs with the help of ab initio calculations.
Contact
Shraoshee Shome
Molecular Magnetism Lab, Lab 114, Elements Building
Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh, India-462066
Email: shraoshee21@iiserb.ac.in