Alessandro Soncini

Tuning the Ferrotoroidic Coupling and Magnetic Hysteresis in Double-Triangle Complexes {(Dy3MDy3)-Dy-III} via the M-III-linker

Jared M Ashtree, Ivana Borilovi, Kuduva R Vignesh, Abinash Swain, Sarah H Hamilton, Yasmin L Whyatt, Sophie L Benjamin, Wasinee Phonsri, Craig M Forsyth, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Alessandro Soncini, Gopalan Rajaraman, Stuart K Langley, Keith S Murray

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

We present the syntheses, structures, magnetic data and theoretical analyses for two families of heptanuclear clusters, wherein tw..

Origin of the hysteresis of magnetoconductance in a supramolecular spin-valve based on a TbPc2 single-molecule magnet

Kieran Hymas, Alessandro Soncini

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physical Review B

We present a time-dependent microscopic model for Coulomb blockade transport through an experimentally realized supramolecular spi..

Toroidal moment in a family of spin -frustrated heterometallic triangular nanomagnets without spin -orbit coupling: Applications in a molecular spintronics device

S Rao, JM Ashtree, A Soncini

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physica B: Condensed Matter

We theoretically investigate a family of spin-frustrated triangular molecular nanomagnets with arbitrary on-site spin, featuring o..

Mechanisms of spin-charge conversion for the electrical readout of 4f quantum states in a TbPc2 single-molecule magnet spin transistor

Kieran Hymas, Alessandro Soncini

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physical Review B

We present a theoretical study exposing the dominant microscopic electronic transport mechanisms underlying a recent molecular spi..

Effect of magnetic anisotropy on direct chiral discrimination in paramagnetic NMR spectroscopy

Simone Calvello, Alessandro Soncini

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

We present and analyse a complete analytic expression for the generalized shielding polarizability third-rank tensor Φαβγ, whose i..

Design of annulene-within-an-annulene systems by the altanisation approach. A study of altan-[n]annulenes

Matteo Piccardo, Alessandro Soncini, Patrick W Fowler, Guglielmo Monaco, Riccardo Zanasi

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The altanisation strategy, devised to design molecules with large and paratropic perimeter circulations, is applied to the family ..

Observation of the asphericity of 4f-electron density and its relation to the magnetic anisotropy axis in single-molecule magnets

Chen Gao, Alessandro Genoni, Song Gao, Shangda Jiang, Alessandro Soncini, Jacob Overgaard

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature Chemistry

The distribution of electrons in the 4f orbitals of lanthanide ions is often assigned a crucial role in the design of single-molec..

Single-ion anisotropy and exchange coupling in cobalt(ii)-radical complexes: insights from magnetic and ab initio studies

Gemma K Gransbury, Marie-Emmanuelle Boulon, Richard A Mole, Robert W Gable, Boujemaa Moubaraki, Keith S Murray, Lorenzo Sorace, Alessandro Soncini, Colette Boskovic

Journal article  |  2019  |  Chemical Science

Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets under irradiation

Kieran Hymas, Alessandro Soncini

Journal article  |  2019  |  Physical Review B

Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Lanthanoid Crown Ether Complexes: Interplay of Raman and Anomalous Phonon Bottleneck Processes

Elodie Rousset, Matteo Piccardo, Marie-Emmanuelle Boulon, Robert W Gable, Alessandro Soncini, Lorenzo Sorace, Colette Boskovic

Journal article  |  2018  |  CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL