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A plastic magnet is a non-metallic magnet made from an organic polymer. An example is PANiCNQ, which is a combination of emeraldine-based polyaniline (PANi) and tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ). It was the first magnetic polymer to function at room temperature. PANi is an air stable conductive polymer. It combines with the free radical forming TCNQ as an acceptor molecule to mimic the mechanism of metallic magnets. The magnetic properties is due to the fully pi-conjugated nitrogen-containing backbone combined with molecular charge transfer side groups. These properties cause the molecule to have a high density of localised spins that can give rise to coupling of their magnetic fields. When a polymer magnet is synthesized, the polymer chains need a long time to line up before displaying any notable magnetism. Plastic magnets could have uses in computer hardware, for example as disc drives and in medical devices such as pacemakers and cochlear implants where the organic material is more likely to be biocompatible than its metallic counterpart. Plastic magnets are affected by light; blue light will increase a magnet's magnetic field and green light will decrease it.

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