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A magnetic facelift for non-magnetic metals

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Copper and manganese have been engineered to show magnetism at room temperature in thin films interfaced with organic molecules. The findings show promise for developing new magnetic materials. See Letter p.69

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Figure 1: Magnetic copper–buckyball interfaces.

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  1. Karthik V. Raman is at the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 075, India.,

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  2. Jagadeesh S. Moodera is in the Department of Physics, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, and at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.,

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