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.