Simultaneous study of the dependences of the structural parameters, electrical, and magnetic properties of hafnium disulfide intercalated iron atoms in the dependence on the intercalate concentration and temperature has been performed for the first time. The temperature dependences of the electrical resistance are shown to exhibit the activation character with the activation energies characteristic of impurity conduction. The effective magnetic moments of iron ions in Fe_ x HfS_2 is found to be significantly lesser than the values of free iron ions and to decrease as the iron content increases. The character of the temperature dependences of the effective magnetic moments and negative values of the paramagnetic Curie temperatures indicate possible interactions of the antiferromagnetic type between intercalated atoms. However, the dependences of the magnetization on field for Fe_0.33HfS_2 and Fe_0.5HfS_2 obtained at T = 2 K demonstrate the hysteresis phenomenon characteristic of the ferromagnetic state. The results are discussed assuming the existence of hybridization 3 d electron states of intercalated iron atoms with the electronic states of HfS_2 matrices and the competition of various exchange interaction.

The study of the structural characteristics, electrical and magnetic properties was carried out on synthesized samples of vanadium diselenide intercalated with chromium atoms. Structural studies have shown a decrease in the symmetry of the crystal lattice from hexagonal to monoclinic with an increase in the concentration of intercalated atoms, caused by their ordering in the Van der Waals gap. In this case, a change in the resistive state occurs in samples of different compositions, which are characterized by opposite thermal coefficients of electrical resistance. The values of the effective magnetic moments of chromium ions in CrxVSe2 decrease in comparison with the spin characteristics with an increase in the chromium content and correlate with the concentration dependence of the parameter c of the unit cell. At low temperatures for compositions х> 0.2, the compounds undergo a transition to the state of a spin glass with a critical temperature of up to 30K.