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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · 9d

What really drives electron spin decoherence in molecular crystals at low-T? Nuclear or Electron spins?

Turns out you have do magnetically dilute your samples quite a bit if you want to really remove electron-electron dipolar interactions...

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Spin decoherence in molecular crystals: Nuclear vs electronic spin baths

The loss of information about the relative phase between two quantum states, known as decoherence, strongly limits resolution in electron paramagnetic spectrosc

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Dawid Pinkowicz @pinkowiczgroup.bsky.social · 10d

So happy this piece is finally out! A tremendous collaborative effort of colleagues and friends from 8 institutions all over Europe. Thank you! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Photochemistry and photophysics in a single crystal @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @cleracr.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com

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Mathias Senge @mathiassenge.bsky.social · 17d

This Friday is #EuropeanResearchersNight ⚗️🧪Come visit us and other research groups @TCD_Chemistry
in @tcdTBSI @TCD_Chemistry @tcddublin.bsky.social . Everyone is welcome 📢! Great science and fun people 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬😀#porphyrins #chlorophyll #cubane #BODIPY #PDT #bicyclopentane @researchireland.ie

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Marcel Swart 🟥 @marcelswart.bsky.social · 29d

#chemjobs #compchem

Assistant Professorship in Theoretical Chemistry at University of Cambridge

www.ch.cam.ac.uk/job/52637

University Assistant Professor | Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Applications are invited for a University Assistant Professor to work in the area of theoretical chemistry, broadly defined, to be taken up in October 2026 (or earlier, by agreement). The successful a...

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Arup Sarkar @arups.bsky.social · Aug 27

Happy to share my latest collaborative work from @mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Optimizing Carrier Balance in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystal LEDs: The Role of Alkyl Ligands and Polar Electron Transport Layers - Advanced Optical Materials - Wiley Online Library advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Optimizing Carrier Balance in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystal LEDs: The Role of Alkyl Ligands and Polar Electron Transport Layers

Ligands are key to passivate the surface of CsPbBr3 nanocrystals, but not all are equally effective. Beyond the insulating nature of alkyl chains, the interaction between a ligand's anchoring group a...

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jul 31

A preprint from a collaborazion with Qian-Cheng Luo from the group of Yan-Zhen Zheng:

"Supramolecular Interactions Modulate Raman Relaxation in D5h Symmetric Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnets Opening the Magnetic Hysteresis up to 50 K"

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Supramolecular Interactions Modulate Raman Relaxation in D5h Symmetric Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnets Opening the Magnetic Hysteresis up to 50 K

Dysprosium-based single-molecule magnets (SMMs) exhibit large values of magnetic anisotropy and large coercive fields, offering the potential to support magnetic information storage at the molecular l...

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jul 29

The work of Lion, Zahra and Lorenzo

Generating New Coordination Compounds via Multireference Simulations, Genetic Algorithms, and Machine Learning: The Case of Co(II) and Dy(III) Molecular Magnets

Now out in JACS Au 🔥🔥

@erc.europa.eu

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Generating New Coordination Compounds via Multireference Simulations, Genetic Algorithms, and Machine Learning: The Case of Co(II) and Dy(III) Molecular Magnets

The design of coordination compounds with target properties often requires years of continuous feedback loop between theory, simulations, and experiments. In the case of magnetic molecules, this conve...

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jul 29

A Multireference Picture of Electronic Excited States in Vanadyl and Copper Tetraphenyl Porphyrin Molecular Qubits

Now published in JPC A

Excellent job by @arups.bsky.social 👏👏

@erc.europa.eu and MSCA

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jul 29

New preprint out:

"Fourth-order quantum master equations reveal that spin-phonon decoherence undercuts long magnetization relaxation times in single-molecule magnets"

arxiv.org/abs/2507.20716

@erc.europa.eu

Fourth-order quantum master equations reveal that spin-phonon decoherence undercuts long magnetization relaxation times in single-molecule magnets

Spin-phonon interaction is known to drive magnetic relaxation in solid-state systems, but little evidence is available on how it affects coherence time. Here we extend fourth-order quantum master equa...

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jul 25

Mariano teaching us how to compute vibronic coupling

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jun 26

Loosely quoting a synthetic coordination chemist friend of mine: Same ingredients, tools and recipe in the hands of a michelene star chef or a random person will lead to very different results

Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Mechanism of Spin-Phonon Relaxation in Endohedral Metallofullerene Single Molecule Magnets

Just made it into @chemicalscience.rsc.org

A work in collab with Rajaraman's group at IITB

@erc.europa.eu

pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

The Mechanism of Spin-Phonon Relaxation in Endohedral Metallofullerene Single Molecule Magnets

This study presents the first-ever investigation of spin-phonon coupling mechanisms in fullerene-based single-molecule magnets (SMMs) using ab initio CASSCF combined with DFT calculations. While lanth...

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jun 6

Optical control of spin states in magnetic molecules:

A few thoughts on a rapidly evolving and very promising research topic from myself and Matteo Atzori

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Optical control of spin states in magnetic molecules

Optical methods stand out as one of the most promising approaches to initialize and read-out spin states in molecules. Herein we critically review ear…

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E. C. Sañudo @ecsanudo.bsky.social · Jun 3

Great taste of Irish food, beer and music at @ecmols2025.bsky.social dinner at #merryploughboypub

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 3

Here we go with our first speaker in the final session of day2 with Prof. Elke Scheer from University of Konstanz #ECMOLS2025

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 3

The second day of #ECMolS2025 concluded with the final session, featuring a compelling talk by Prof. Pascal Gehring from Université catholique de Louvain

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 3

Third speaker from the 2nd session on Day2 is delivered by Prof. Mathias O. Senge from @tcddublin @TCD_Chemistry #ECMolS2025

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our first speaker (tutorial speaker) for the morning session on Day2 is Prof. Fernando Luis from the University of Zaragoza #ecmols2025

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 2

Continuing with more insights from the poster session at #ECMolS2025

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 2

📢 Poster Session Highlights | day one of #ECMolS2025

We had a dynamic and intellectually rich poster sessions at the day end with vibrant exchange of ideas, visuals, and conversations. Thanks to all who presented and participated!

📸 Swipe through to see some moments from the session.

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 2

Some more glimpses of today's poster session at #ECMolS2025

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 2

Let's dive in for more peeks at the poster session at #ECMolS2025

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4th European Conference on Molecular Spintronics @ecmols2025.bsky.social · Jun 2

Time for another round of poster session highlights at #ECMolS2025

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Alessandro Lunghi @lunghiale.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is huge

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Jun 2

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?

From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:

• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)

More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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