Chemistry Letters, Vol.37, No.4, 404-405, 2008
Surface bottom-up fabrication of porphyrin-terminated metal complex molecular wires with photo-electron conversion properties on ITO
We fabricated photoelectron conversion system with porphyrin-terminated "molecular wires" on an ITO surface synthesized using stepwise metal-terpyridine complexation reactions. The efficiency and the electrode potential singnificantly depended on the metal center of the bis(terpyridine) complex unit in the molecular wire.