Invent tiny magnets

2002/05/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Materialak

Magnets are used in more tools than we think. Therefore, scientists are working hard to find new materials with magnetic properties and research to better understand the essence of magnetism.

Researchers from the University of California at Rivers and the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford have taken their final steps on this issue.

The union of two radicals with each other in molecular structures, without the union of the valence electrons of atoms, results in a single birradical. Materials with virradicals are magnetically more active. A University of California team has managed to create a radical single and keep it stable at room temperature. For this they have used boron and phosphorus.

Meanwhile, chemists and physicists from the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford have achieved a new magnetic oxide: Personal information Negatively charged hydrogen atoms channel magnetic interaction in this material and for the first time hydrogen and oxide ions together in a magnetic material.

These discoveries have laid the foundation for the production of new magnetic materials.