This work was carried out under the supervision of Dr. Jean-François Dayen. (IPCMS – DMONS)
PhD Defense : Gyandeep PRADHAN
Gyandeep PRADHAN (IPCMS – DMONS)
Jury:
M. Edoardo Albisetti, Politecnico di Milano, Milan . Rapporteur
M. Matthieu Bailleul, CNRS IPCMS, Strasbourg . Directeur de thèse
M. Nicolas Bizière, CNRS CEMES, Toulouse . Rapporteur
M. Yves Henry, CNRS IPCMS, Strasbourg . Invité
Mme Liliana Prejbeanu, SPINTEC, UGA, Grenoble . Examinatrice
PhD defenses : Mohamed SOLIMAN
Mohamed SOLIMAN (IPCMS – DMONS)
Directeur de thèse : Jean-François Dayen,
Seminar DMONS – DCMI – Axis 5 presented by : Abhishake MONDAL
Abhishake MONDAL (Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Abstract :
The pursuit of smart multifunctional materials with stimuli-responsive magnetic and optical response has drawn escalating interest in both fundamental science and potential applications to switches, sensors, and intelligent devices.1 One of the appealing feature of such materials is the tunability of their physical property via chemistry, where the linking structure and physical properties can be modulated in practically infinite ways, which gives them an edge over the solid-state magnetic materials (Figure 1, a).2 The field of molecular bistable systems is rapidly budding towards utilizing these molecule-based magnetic materials in physics-driven and nanotechnology-driven fields (Figure 1, b).

Figure 1: a) Stimuli-responsive molecular bistable systems and b) Application areas where these systems are actively studied for developing devices
Here, I will briefly cover the exciting field of Molecular Magnetism and will specifically focus on three most important aspects of Molecular Magnetism being pursued in my laboratory i) Spin Crossover (SCO) materials3 ii) Metal-to-Metal Electron Transfer Systems (MMET)4 and iii) Single Molecule Magnets (SMM).5 Lastly, I shall discuss the application of these bistable systems in developing ring-resonator devices for Photonics Application, molecular break junctions and microelectromechanical systems.
Acknowledgments: I thank the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India, IISc-Start-up Research Grant, the Department of Science and Technology, Mission on Nano Science and Technology (Nano Mission), Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS, MHRD), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for the research fundings.
References:
1. Kamilya, S.; Dey, B.; Kaushik, K.; Shukla, S.; Mehta, S.; Mondal, A. Chem. Mater. 2024, 36, 4889, Kaushik, K.; Mehta, S.; Das, M.; Ghosh, S.; Kamilya, S.; Mondal, A., Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 13107, Coronado, E., Nat. Rev. Mater. 2020, 5, 87. 2. Minguez Espallargas, G.; Coronado, E., Chem. Soc. Rev. 2018, 47, 533. 3. Ghosh, S.; Kamilya, S.; Pramanik, T.; Rouzieres, M.; Herchel, R.; Mehta, S.; Mondal, A., Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 13009, Ghosh, S.; Ghosh, S.; Kamilya, S.; Mandal, S.; Mehta, S.; Mondal, A., Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 17080, Bagchi, S.; Kamilya, S.; Mehta, S.; Mandal, S.; Bandyopadhyay, A.; Narayan, A.; Ghosh, S.; Mondal, A., Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 11335, Ghosh, S.; Bagchi, S.; Kamilya, S.; Mehta, S.; Sarkar, D.; Herchel R.; Mondal, A., Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 7681. 4. Kamilya, S.; Ghosh, S.; Li, Y.; Dechambenoit, P.; Rouzières, M.; Lescouëzec, R.; Mehta, S.; Mondal, A., Inorg. Chem., 2020, 59, 11879, Kamilya, S.; Ghosh, S.; Mehta, S.; Mondal, A., J. Phys. Chem. A 2021, 125, 4775. 5. Hossain, S. M.; Kamilya, S.; Ghosh, S.; Herchel, R.; Kiskin, M. A.; Mehta, S.; Mondal, A., Cryst. Growth Des. 2023, 23, 1656.
PhD Defense : Mathieu LAMBLIN
Mathieu LAMBLIN (IPCMS – DMONS)
Director : Dr. Martin Bowen
PhD Defense : Joanna WOLFF
Joanna WOLFF (IPCMS / DMONS)
Thèse co-dirigée par Stéphane Berciaud et Arnaud Gloppe
Le jury est composé de
– Clément Faugeras, LNCMI Grenoble (rapporteur)
– Vincent Jacques, L2C Montpellier (rapporteur)
– Cyriaque Genet, ISIS Strasbourg (examinateur)
– Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Université d’Aalto, Finlande (examinatrice)
– Martino Poggio, Université de Bâle, Suisse (examinateur)
PhD defense : Satakshi Pandey
Satakshi Pandey (IPCMS / DMONS)
The defense is scheduled for Friday 18 October 2024 at 9.30 am in the IPCMS auditorium
This work was performed under the guidance of Dr. Jean Francois Dayen (DMONS) and Dr. David Halley (DMONS).
“HDR” defense : Arnaud Gloppe
Franco-Indian mini-workshop on two-dimensional ferroic materials and devices
This workshop is organised with the support of CEFIPRA, the French and Indian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the ITI QMAT.
Around twenty oral presentations are scheduled.
Speakers have been selected from both academia and industry.
We will be discussing aspects relating to these materials, their fundamental properties and their applications, particularly in the field of memory and information echnologies.
For more information, you can refer to the attached flyer and the workshop website :
https://sites.google.com/view/if-wo2dfm2024/home
The workshop is open to all, and free of charge.
For organisational reasons, please let me know before 26 June noon of your participation by email ( dayen@unistra.fr ).
Workshop SWING
The goal of this workshop is to gather the French community working in the broad field of magnonics (i.e. physics and technologies of spin waves). This workshop will also serve as a scientific kick-off of the project SWING, whose focus is on applied magnonics, and which is part of the recently funded program PEPR Spin.
Please find extra information (schedule, registration submission) at https://swing-workshop1.sciencesconf.org/