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Personal values influence goals and motivate actions. The case study reported in this paper explored whether an understanding of values would provide a useful framework to guide the co-creation of the undergraduate cognitive psychology curriculum at a UK University. A design team composed of staff and students ran two co-creation workshops to explore underlying values. These values were translated into curriculum ideas which were then shared via an online survey to students and staff for feedback. The activities revealed a set of values that were salient when imagining future curriculum designs: feeling stimulated, choice and autonomy, developing competence, feeling safe and secure, community and fairness. In addition, a deeper value layer was visible which reflected participants' orientations to learning and education. We describe our process for eliciting values and the intertwined and iterative relationship between value elicitation and a co-created curriculum. We also reflect on the position of co-creation within the value landscape of higher education and the social dynamics of staff-student partnerships. We argue that whilst using values to frame co-creation allows for deeper insight into how to embed curriculum re-innovation, it is important to attend to the value system of co-creation and those who do not participate.

Aim: Expanding and sustaining student nurse placements outside of the acute sector is a universal challenge. This paper aims to evaluate the Care Home Education Facilitator Role introduced in one area of Wales, United Kingdom, and to report on the outcomes achieved from this novel role. Methods: Semi‐structured interviews were undertaken with key stakeholders including the Care Home Education Facilitator postholder leading the pilot, care home managers, higher education institutions' placement managers/coordinators, student nurses and national health service staff. Results: Five key areas were identified, which included timing of introducing the post and establishing a clear rationale and understanding of the intention of the role. The benefits, challenges and suggested improvements to the Care Home Education Facilitator initiative are provided. Conclusion: Introducing the role of the Care Home Education Facilitator to work closely with key stakeholders resulted in increased placements for student nurses, but investing time in developing relationships with these stakeholders was critical to the success of the role. Summary statement: What is already known about this topic? There is a universal shortage of clinical placements for nursing students, particularly within a care home setting.The number of studies exploring how we might grow the number of nurses needed in this setting is limited. What this paper adds? This study evaluated a novel initiative introduced in South Wales, United Kingdom, that focuses on the development of nursing placements in the care home setting.Engaging with stakeholders involved in the development and implementation of the Care Home Education Facilitator initiative, a roadmap was provided to illustrate the stepped approach required to support an active care home placement including key governance arrangements. The implications of this paper: For those involved in identifying and developing student placements, this study provides valuable insight to a role that can help increase student numbers in a care setting often overlooked.It identifies viable career options for nurses at the point of registration.The role assists with widening networks for the care homes across health and social care sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tetrathiatriarylmethyl radicals (TAM or trityl) are receiving increasing attention in various fields of magnetic resonance such as imaging, dynamic nuclear polarization, spin labeling, and, more recently, molecular magnetism and quantum information technology. Here, a trityl radical attached via a phenyl bridge to a copper(II)tetraphenylporphyrin was synthesized, and its magnetic properties studied by multi‐frequency continuous‐wave electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and magnetic measurements. EPR revealed that the electron spin‐spin coupling constant J between the trityl and Cu2+ spin centers is ferromagnetic with a magnitude of −2.3 GHz (−0.077 cm−1, +JS→1S→2 ${+J{\vec{S}}_{1}{\vec{S}}_{2}}$ convention) and a distribution width of 1.2 GHz (0.040 cm−1). With the help of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the obtained ferromagnetic exchange coupling, which is unusual for para‐substituted phenyl‐bridged biradicals, could be related to the almost perpendicular orientation of the phenyl linker with respect to the porphyrin and trityl ring planes in the energy minimum, while the J distribution was rationalized by the temperature weighted rotation of the phenyl bridge about the molecular axis connecting both spin centers. This study exemplifies the importance of molecular dynamics for the homogeneity (or heterogeneity) of the magnetic properties of trityl‐based systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We use in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements to monitor the solvothermal crystallization mechanism of the aperiodic metal-organic framework TRUMOF-1. Following an initial incubation period, TRUMOF-1 forms as a metastable intermediate that subsequently transforms into an ordered product with triclinic crystal symmetry. We determine the structure of this ordered phase, which we call msw-TRUMOF-1, and show that it is related to TRUMOF-1 through topotactic reorganization of linker occupancies. Our results imply that the connectivity of TRUMOF-1 can be reorganized, as required for data storage and manipulation applications.

We report the magnetic behavior of the hybrid perovskites [Gua]Mn 1- x Fe 2 x /3 □ x /3 (HCOO) 3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.88), showing that vacancy ordering drives bulk ferrimagnetism for x > 0.6. The behavior is rationalized in terms of a simple microscopic model of percolation-induced ferrimagnetism. Monte Carlo simulations driven by this model reproduce the experimental dependence of magnetic susceptibility on x and show that, at intermediate compositions, domains of short-range vacancy order lead to the emergence of local magnetization. Our results open up a new avenue for the design of multiferroic hybrid perovskites.

Tetrathiatriarylmethyl radicals (TAM or trityl) are receiving increasing attention in various fields of magnetic resonance, such as imaging, dynamic nuclear polarization, spin labeling, and, more recently, molecular magnetism and quantum information technology. Here, a trityl radical attached via a phenyl bridge to a copper(II)tetraphenylporphyrin was synthesized, and its magnetic properties studied by multi-frequency continuous-wave electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and magnetic measurements. EPR revealed that the electron spin-spin coupling constant J between the trityl and Cu2+ spin centers is ferromagnetic with a magnitude of 2.3 GHz (0.077 cm-1 (JS1S2 convention) and a distribution width of 1.2 GHz (0.040 cm-1). With the help of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the obtained ferromagnetic exchange coupling, which is unusual for para-substituted phenyl-bridged biradicals, could be related to the almost perpendicular orientation of the phenyl linker with respect to the porphyrin and trityl ring planes in the energy minimum, while the J distribution was rationalized by the temperature weighted rotation of the phenyl bridge about the molecular axis connecting both spin centers. This study exemplifies the importance of molecular dynamics for the homogeneity (or heterogeneity) of the magnetic properties of trityl-based systems., (© 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH.)

Sr 2 NiO 2 Cu 2 Se 2 , comprising alternating [Sr 2 NiO 2 ] 2+ and [Cu 2 Se 2 ] 2- layers, is reported. Powder neutron diffraction shows that the Ni 2+ ions, which are in a highly elongated NiO 4 Se 2 environment with D 4 h symmetry, adopt a high-spin configuration and carry localized magnetic moments which order antiferromagnetically below ∼160 K in a √2 a × √2 a × 2 c expansion of the nuclear cell with an ordered moment of 1.31(2) μ B per Ni 2+ ion. The adoption of the high-spin configuration for this d 8 cation in a pseudo-square-planar ligand field is supported by consideration of the experimental bond lengths and the results of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. This is in contrast to the sulfide analogue Sr 2 NiO 2 Cu 2 S 2 , which, according to both experiment and DFT calculations, has a much more elongated ligand field, more consistent with the low-spin configuration commonly found for square-planar Ni 2+ , and accordingly, there is no evidence for magnetic moment on the Ni 2+ ions. Examination of the solid solution Sr 2 NiO 2 Cu 2 (Se 1- x S x ) 2 shows direct evidence from the evolution of the crystal structure and the magnetic ordering for the transition from high-spin selenide-rich compounds to low-spin sulfide-rich compounds as a function of composition. Compression of Sr 2 NiO 2 Cu 2 Se 2 up to 7.2 GPa does not show any structural signature of a change in the spin state. Consideration of the experimental and computed Ni 2+ coordination environments and their subtle changes as a function of temperature, in addition to transitions evident in the transport properties and magnetic susceptibilities in the end members, Sr 2 NiO 2 Cu 2 Se 2 and Sr 2 NiO 2 Cu 2 S 2 , suggest that simple high-spin and low-spin models for Ni 2+ may not be entirely appropriate and point to further complexities in these compounds., Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing financial interest., (© 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.)

The development of sustainable and efficient cryogenic cooling materials is currently the subject of extensive research, with the aim of relieving the dependence of current low-temperature cooling methods on expensive and nonrenewable liquid helium. One potential method to achieve this is the use of materials demonstrating the magnetocaloric effect, where the cycling of an applied magnetic field leads to a net cooling effect due to changes in magnetic entropy upon application and removal of an external magnetic field. This study details the synthesis and characterization of a Ln 3 (adipate) 4.5 (DMF) 2 series (where Ln = Gd-Er) of metal-organic framework (MOF) materials incorporating a flexible adipate ligand and their associated magnetocaloric and thermal expansion properties. The magnetocaloric performance of the Gd 3 (adipate) 4.5 (DMF) 2 material was found to exhibit the highest magnetic entropy changes of the series, with a peak entropy change of 36.4 J kg -1 K -1 for a 5-0 T field change at a temperature of 2 K, which is suited for ultra-low-temperature cooling applications. Thermal expansion properties were also investigated within these materials, demonstrating modest negative and large positive thermal expansion identified along the different crystallographic axes within the MOF structures over a 100-300 K temperature range that demonstrated the novel mechanical properties of these adipate framework structures.