Large magnetic anisotropy of a decorated spin-chain system K2Co3(MoO4)3(OH)2

The magnetic structure of K2Co3(MoO4)3(OH)2 is studied in detail. The material has a half-sawtooth one-dimensional (1-D) structure containing two unique Co2+ ions, one in the chain backbone and one on the apex of the sawtooth creating a series of isosceles triangles along the b-axis. These triangles can be a source of magnetic frustration. The ability to grow large single crystals enables detailed magnetic measurements with the crystals oriented in a magnetic field along the respective axes. It has a Curie-Weiss temperature θCW of 5.3(2) K with an effective magnetic moment of 4.8(3)μB/Co. The material is highly anisotropic with a sharp antiferromagnetic ordering transition at 7 K with a metamagnetic transition at 2 kOe. Neutron diffraction was used to determine the magnetic structure and revealed a magnetic structure with canted spins along the backbone of the chain while spins along the sawtooth caps maintained a colinear orientation, arranging antiferromagnetically relative to the backbone spins. The parallel chains arrange antiferromagnetically relative to each other along the c-axis and ferromagnetically along the a-axis.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:53

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Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) - 53(2024), 15 vom: 16. Apr., Seite 6592-6600

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Englisch

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Patel, Bhakti K [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Liyanage, W L N C [VerfasserIn]
Buchanan, C Charlotte [VerfasserIn]
Gilbert, Dustin A [VerfasserIn]
Kolis, Joseph W [VerfasserIn]
Sanjeewa, Liurukara D [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 19.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1039/d4dt00203b

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NLM368657396