A series of 1D nickel(II)/zinc(II)-lanthanide(III) coordination polymers, [M(μ-L) 2 Ln(NO 3 ) 3 ] n ·solvents (HL = bis(2-pyridylcarbonyl)amine; M = Ni, Ln = Gd (1·NiGd), Tb (2·NiTb), Dy (3·NiDy), Ho (4·NiHo), Y (5·NiY); M = Zn, Ln = Gd (6·ZnGd), Tb (7·ZnTb), Dy (8·ZnDy), Ho (9·ZnHo); solvents = H 2 O or H 2 O-ethanol), was synthesized and characterized. All of the complexes are isostructural at 293 K and crystallize in the orthorhombic space group Fddd. Magnetic measurements were performed on 1-9, where weak ferromagnetic interaction is found in 1·NiGd, ferromagnetic interaction in 2·NiTb and 3·NiDy, and antiferromagnetic interaction in 4·NiHo. A remarkable dc magnetic field dependence of ac susceptibilities was found in this series of complexes.nickel, lanthanide, 3d-4f coordination polymer, magnetic property Molecule-based magnetic materials have attracted increasing attention in recent years due to their significance in fundamental research and potential applications in molecular devices [1][2][3][4] . In the process of exploring novel molecular magnetic materials, the nature and spatial arrangement of the spin carriers are two of the most decisive factors to determine the magnetic behaviors of the resulting materials [5][6][7] . This is especially true in the constructions of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) [8] and single-chain magnets (SCMs) [9] , in both of which a high spin ground state (S ) and a large and negative axial zero-field splitting (D < 0) of that ground state are required.Paramagnetic lanthanide ions have begun to be adopted in the field of molecule-based magnetic materials because most of them can exhibit large anisotropic magnetic moments, which are required by magnetically ordered materials with large coercive fields [10] . Up to now, the incorporation of lanthanide ions with 3d metal ions (i.e., 3d-4f complexes) or radicals have resulted in various heteronuclear complexes exhibiting interesting magnetic behaviors, such as SMMs and SCMs [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] . The idea of incorporation of lanthanide ions into 3d-4f chain complexes opens a new way to build novel SCMs, though the rational design and synthesis of extended structures of coordination polymers are still a challenge.The multi-dentate ligand bis(2-pyridylcarbonyl)amine (HL) has long been used as a tridentate N ligand to form mononuclear complex [M(L) 2 ] [22,23] . The four free carbonyl C-O groups in the resulting [M(L) 2 ] can further participate in coordination with metal ions, through which [M(L) 2 ] acts as a bis-bidentate bridging complex ligand to afford polynuclear [24][25][26] and multi-dimensional