Nicholas Chilton: Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Molecules

Seminar

Location: Elings Hall rm. 1601

Speaker

Nicholas Chilton

Professor of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

The University of Manchester

Abstract

Our group has been developing methods for calculating spin-phonon coupling in molecules from first principles. I will present our most recent results in determining the T1 and T2 rates in molecules, and in the calculation of vibronic spectra. I will also discuss our recent work examining the bonding and magnetic interactions in the first example of a lanthanide-lanthanide single-electron bond, which leads to compounds showing coercive magnetic fields five-times larger than industry-leading neodymium magnets.

Bio

Prof. Chilton obtained his undergraduate degree from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) in 2011, his PhD from The University of Manchester in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Richard Winpenny and Prof. Eric McInnes. He was a Ramsay Memorial Research Fellow from 2016-2018, a UoM Presidential Fellow from 2018-2019 and is currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow (from 2019). In 2015 he won the Dalton Young Researchers Award and in 2021 he won a Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, both from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 2019 he won the 7th Olivier Kahn International Award from the European Institute for Molecular Magnetism.