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New publication of COSM team : “Designing of a Magnetodielectric System in Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Framework, a Perovskite Layered Phosphonate MnO3PC6H4‐m‐Br⋅H2O”

T. Basu, C. Bloyet, F. Beaubras, V. Caignaert, O. Perez, J.M. Rueff, A. Pautrat, B. Raveau, J.F. Lohier, P.A. Jaffrès, H. Couthon, G. Rogez, G. Taupier, H. Dorkenoo

Adv. Funct. Mater., 2019, 1901878 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201901878

Very few hybrid organic–inorganic frameworks (HOIF) exhibit direct coupling between spins and dipoles and are also restricted to particular COOH-based system. It is shown how one can design a hybrid system to obtain such coupling based on the rational design of the organic ligands.

The layered phosphonate, MnO3PC6H5⋅H2O, consisting of perovskite layers stacked with organic phenyl layers, is used as a starting potential candidate. To introduce dipole moment, a closely related metal phosphonate, MnO3PC6H4-m-Br⋅H2O is designed. For this purpose, this phosphonate is prepared from 3-bromophenylphosphonic acid that features one electronegative bromine atom directly attached on the aromatic ring in metaposition, lowering the symmetry of precursor itself. Thus, bromobenzene moieties in MnO3PC6H4-m-Br⋅H2O induce a finite dipole moment. This new designed compound exhibits complex magnetism, as observed in layered alkyl chains MnO3PCnH2n+1⋅H2O materials, namely, 2D magnetic ordering ≈20 K followed by weak ferromagnetic ordering below 12 K (T1) with a magnetic field (H)-induced transition ≈25 kOe below T1. All these magnetic features are exactly captured in T and H-dependent dielectric constant, ε′(T) and ε′(H). This demonstrates direct magnetodielectric coupling in this designed hybrid and yields a new path to tune multiferroic ordering and magnetodielectric coupling.