Molecular Magnetic Materials

Welcome to the Molecular Magnetic Materials group at Monash University, School of Chemistry.

Welcome to the Molecular Magnetic Materials web site. For many years Professor Keith S Murray (KSM) and his group have provided a centre of magnetochemical excellence for their own work on Transition Metal Complexes, Metal Proteins, Coordination Polymers, Spin-crossover Materials and Molecular Magnets, and for other groups in Australia, New Zealand and overseas.

The magnetochemical laboratory is well equipped with DC SQUID and AC magnetometers as well as heat capacity equipment.  A large range of temperature and magnetic fields is available. Other techniques such as UV-Visible Spectroscopy, X-ray Crystallography, EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopy are readily available in the School of Chemistry or next door in the School of Physics.  KSM has a vigorous synthetic laboratory adjacent to the magnetism laboratory. Both laboratories are newly renovated. This kind of fundamental research is a nice blend of organic and inorganic chemical synthesis and high level physicoinorganic chemistry and measurements.  

KSM was awarded the 2003 Burrows Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for his work in magnetochemistry and coordination chemistry.  He has given invited lectures on the Monash University work at recent international conferences on Molecule-Based Magnetism (ICMM) (e.g. Victoria, Canada 2006, Tsukuba 2004, Valencia 2002); on Prussian Blue analogues (ACS, San Diego, 2005); on inorganic architecture (Costa Brava 2002) and the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) Edinburgh, 2000.  KSM's students and Post-doctorals have also given posters at recent international conferences. 

Funding is provided largely by the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Present Research Areas include

Molecule-Based Magnetic Materials (MBM's)

Spin-crossover Materials (SCO)