Nanoporous materials are widely explored as efficient adsorbents for the storage of gases
and liquids as well as for effective low-dielectric materials in large-scale integrated circuits …

Many complex mechanisms underlying the fascinating functionalities provided by
tetrapyrrolic macrocycles in biochemistry have been already unraveled. Light harvesting …

Porphyrins and tetrapyrroles play crucial roles in biological processes such as
photosynthesis and molecular transport. These nature-based molecules have found …

In the last decade, hydrogen (H-) tautomerization, that is, a reaction that involves simple
intramolecular proton transfer, has been studied in single phthalocyanine, porphyrin, and …

The ability for small molecules to organize into larger, ordered structures by self-assembly is
a key process for the continued existence of all living organisms. Systems that exist far …

This thesis is centred around the interaction of few-molecule arrays with gold surfaces and
the enhanced optical fields that occur in nanoscale junctions between gold nanoparticles …