Issue 3, 2014

Cobalt adipate, Co(C6H8O4): antiferromagnetic structure, unusual thermal expansion and magnetoelastic coupling

Abstract

Co adipate, Co(C6H8O4), has been found to order near 10 K into a magnetic structure featuring sheets of tetrahedral Co cations coupled antiferromagnetically in two dimensions through carboxylate groups. The emergence of this order is accompanied by magnetoelastic coupling, which drives anisotropic negative thermal expansion along the a-axis below 50 K, the first time such behaviour has been observed in a metal-organic framework. The monoclinic angle, β, has also been found to decrease on cooling, passing through a metrically orthorhombic phase without a phase transition; this unusual behaviour has been rationalised in terms of the thermal expansion along the principal axes.

Graphical abstract: Cobalt adipate, Co(C6H8O4): antiferromagnetic structure, unusual thermal expansion and magnetoelastic coupling

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 jan 2014
Accepted
24 jan 2014
First published
24 jan 2014

Mater. Horiz., 2014,1, 332-337

Author version available

Cobalt adipate, Co(C6H8O4): antiferromagnetic structure, unusual thermal expansion and magnetoelastic coupling

P. J. Saines, P. T. Barton, M. Jura, K. S. Knight and A. K. Cheetham, Mater. Horiz., 2014, 1, 332 DOI: 10.1039/C4MH00009A

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