title: Self-assembling porphyrins and phthalocyanines for photoinduced charge separation and charge transport.
abstract: Large π-conjugated compounds are promising building blocks for organic thin-film electronics such as organic light-emitting diodes, organic field-effect transistors, and organic photovoltaics. Utilization of porphyrins and phthalocyanines for this purpose is highly fascinating because of their excellent electric, photophysical, and electrochemical properties as well as intense self-assembling abilities arising from π-π stacking interactions. This paper focuses on fundamental aspects of self-assembled structures that have been obtained from porphyrin and phthalocyanine building blocks and more complex composites for photoinduced charge separation and charge transport toward the potential applications to organic thin-film electronics.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. imahori@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Imahori
authors.forename: Tomokazu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Umeyama
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurotobi
authors.forename: Yuta
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takano