Magnets

Companies Magnets

RCT Reichelt Chemietechnik GmbH + Co., Germany

The Baden company is not only nationally active in the sectors of production and process technology, lab technology, fluid technology, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, instrument manufacture, machine construction and metrology, but also in Europe and various countries around the world. Here the com more

Magnes AG, Switzerland

Magnes AG is a technology spinoff from the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL) of ETH Zurich. Magnes inherits its extensive know-how on magnetic sensing and actuation technologies from MSRL. With our multidisciplinary and dynamic team, we offer various magnetic solutions in demanding applications. more

News Magnets

• Unprecedented insight into two-dimensional magnets using diamond quantum sensors
  

  For the first time, physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in measuring the magnetic properties of atomically thin van der Waals materials on the nanoscale. They used diamond quantum sensors to determine the strength of the magnetization of individual atomic layers of the material chro more

• Valence-bond revival in magnetism
  

  Magnets are prone to order. Their basic constituents, individual magnetic moments, tend to align at low temperatures, thus forming “frozen” magnetically ordered states. A minority of magnets break this trend and reveal peculiar characteristics that can be paralleled to a never-freezing (quantum) liq more

• A special phenomenon in magnets
  

  Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen and the ETH Zurich have discovered a special phenomenon in magnets. This phenomenon takes place at the nanoscale and enables magnets to be assembled in unusual configurations, which could also be useful for computer technology and data sto more

Videos Magnets

Multiresponsive nanosurfactant integrates functions of molecular surfactants

(0:00) Droplets coated with nanosurfactants are hit with a laser which clumps the droplets into a two-dimensional hexagonal structure and rotates them much like gears. (0:17) Droplets are randomly distributed and then a laser is turned on which attracts them together into a bilayer aggregate. Up ... more

Infographics Magnets

The Chemistry of an Electric Guitar

Electric guitars, on the face of it, might not seem to have much to do with chemistry. However, the materials that make them up are carefully chosen for their chemical properties, without which they simply wouldn’t function. In this graphic, we take a look at some of these materials, and their typic more

Publications Magnets

• Layered ferrimagnets constructed from charge-transferred paddlewheel [Ru2] units and TCNQ derivatives: the importance of interlayer translational distance in determining magnet ...

  A donor (D)/acceptor (A) assembly reaction using the paddlewheel-type diruthenium(ii,ii) complex [Ru2(3,5-F2PhCO2)4(THF)2] (3,5-F2PhCO2− = 3,5-difluorobenzoate; abbreviated hereafter as [Ru2]) as D and 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethane derivatives (TCNQRx; 2,5-R-substituted TCNQ) as A in a DCM/TCE more

• Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron tunneling

  Magnetic insulators are a key resource for next-generation spintronic and topological devices. The family of layered metal halides promises varied magnetic states, including ultrathin insulating multiferroics, spin liquids, and ferromagnets, but device-oriented characterization methods are needed t more

• Defect formation dynamics in curved elastic surface crystals

  Topological defects shape the material and transport properties of physical systems. Examples range from vortex lines in quantum superfluids, defect-mediated buckling of graphene, and grain boundaries in ferromagnets and colloidal crystals, to domain structures formed in the early universe. The Kibb more