Department of Chemistry Seminar Announcement Date/Time/Venue Title/Speaker 26 Jan (Wed) 11am – 12nn @ S8 Level 3 Executive Classroom Framework-Structured Weak Ferromagnets Professor Gao Song Peking University, China Host : Assoc Prof Lu Yixin About the Speaker Professor Song Gao got his BS and PhD in chemistry at Peking University (PKU) in 1985 and 1991, and then worked at PKU till now. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow in TH Aachen from 1995 to 1997. He has been Cheung Kong Professor in College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University since 2002, and served as dean of this college in 2006-2010. He is now deputy director of Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences. He received State Natural Science Award (the 2nd Grade) in 2006 because of his contribution in magnetic ordered coordination polymers and molecular nanomagnets. He was elected as member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. In the same year, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). He is member of Editorial Advisory Board for Chem. Soc. Rev., Chemical Science, and Inorganic Chemistry etc., and Associate Editor of CrystEngComm. Professor Song Gao and his collaborators published more than 300 papers with h-index 51. He is the chairman of the 12th International Conference on Molecule-based Magnets held in Beijing in 2010. His research interests are magnetic ordered coordination polymers, molecular nanomagnets, molecular and crystal engineering, and multifunctional molecular materials. Abstract Framework-structured weak ferromagnet is a new rising star in the molecule-based magnetic materials. The framework structures are powerful carriers for long range ordering of spins. And weak ferromagnetism due to spin canting is an effective approach for molecular magnets because of its frequent occurrence and desired spontaneous magnetization as long as the canting angle γ is large enough. In this talk, various framework-structured weak ferromagnets based on different grades of ligands (from mono-atom to three-atom-like ligands) will be reviewed. Particular emphasis is given to the relationships between structural features and the properties, rational employments of the ligands, and weak ferromagnetic strategies for molecule-based magnets with exciting properties and applications. All are Welcome