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Rationalization of the Mechanism of Bistability in Dithiazolyl-based Molecular Magnets
Francese, Tommaso
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Propositions
belonging to the PhD thesis entitled
Rationalization of the Mechanism
of Bistability in Dithiazolyl-based
Molecular Magnets
of Tommaso Francese Groningen, 25 March 2019
1) The hampering of the dimerization process in DTA-based compounds can force the material in a permanent ferromagnetic configuration.
2) Moore’s law will not come to an end if the DTA-based materials are properly employed. 3) Good science, like good wine, needs time.
4) Life is a game played within a 3 kcal mol-1 window.
(from The Curious Wavefunction blog on Scientific American entitled “What is chemical intuition?”)
5) Science is first a behavioural discipline and then a methodological one.
6) Despite the simple molecular structure of the TTTA prototype material, it is still too hard to computationally replicate its first-order phase transition process.
7) The defect in the crystal model makes the representation more realistic.
8) The structure found through X-ray experiment in many cases does not correspond to a minimum energy geometry.
(S. Vela, F. Mota, M. Deumal, R. Suizu, Y. Shuku, A. Mizuno, K. Awaga, M. Shiga, J.J. Novoa, J. Ribas-Arino, Nature communications 5 (2014) 4411; Chapter 6 of this Thesis)
9) A rigorous analysis on a simple model can give more insight than accurate computations. (P.S. Bagus,, M. Seel, Physical Review B 23 (1981) 2065; Chapter 5 of this Thesis)
