{"id":239132,"date":"2026-06-17T03:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/intermolecular-collisions-may-explain-why-organic-radical-fluids-become-unusually-magnetic"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:23:41","slug":"intermolecular-collisions-may-explain-why-organic-radical-fluids-become-unusually-magnetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/intermolecular-collisions-may-explain-why-organic-radical-fluids-become-unusually-magnetic","title":{"rendered":"Intermolecular collisions may explain why organic radical fluids become unusually magnetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intermolecular-collisions-may-explain-why-organic-radical-fluids-become-unusually-magnetic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certain substances can become magnetic when exposed to an external magnetic field. Magnetic susceptibility measures how easily a material can be magnetized. Materials known as organic radicals have been noted to possess anomalously large magnetic susceptibility. However, researchers have been unable to explain this phenomenon using conventional theories.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the University of Osaka have developed a theoretical framework to explain this anomalous magnetic susceptibility. This discovery was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.jpclett.6c01231\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain substances can become magnetic when exposed to an external magnetic field. Magnetic susceptibility measures how easily a material can be magnetized. Materials known as organic radicals have been noted to possess anomalously large magnetic susceptibility. However, researchers have been unable to explain this phenomenon using conventional theories. Now, researchers at the University of Osaka [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}