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To further miniaturize electronics, smaller and smaller magnetic storage materials must be used, including single molecules with magnetic memory. Single molecule magnets exhibit magnetic properties at low temperatures where thermal fluctuations are low. These low temperatures are expensive and difficult to attain, prohibitively so for commercial applications, because they require the use of liquid helium. This Dysprosium sandwich complex exhibits magnetism at an astonishingly high temperature of 80 K, which can be reached with the much more accessible liquid nitrogen.
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