The sensing performances of gas sensors must be improved and diversified to enhance
quality of life by ensuring health, safety, and convenience. Metal–organic frameworks …

The unique properties of natural tetrapyrrolic compounds have inspired the rapid growth of
research interest in the design and synthesis of artificial porphyrinoids and their metal …

Photocatalytic water splitting is a green technology for sustainable hydrogen evolution. To
improve photon-to-electron conversion efficiency, the design and development of efficient …

The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future
technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their …

This paper describes the first demonstration of using a series of isoreticular nickel
phthalocyanine-and nickel naphthalocyanine-based bimetallic conductive two-dimensional …

Phthalocyanines (Pcs) are intensely coloured, robust macrocycles that possess admirable
chemical, thermal and photo-stability as a result of its extensive π-network. The Pc family …

Tetrapyrrole derivatives such as porphyrins, phthalocyanines, naphthalocyanines, and
porpholactones, are highly stable macrocyclic compounds that play important roles in many …

The development of multifunctional agents for simultaneous tumor targeting and near
infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging is expected to have significant impact on future …

Squaraine dyes are a class of organic dyes with strong and narrow absorption bands in the
near-infrared. Despite high molar absorptivities and fluorescence quantum yields, these …

1. INTRODUCTION Porphyrins (Ps) 1, 2 and their best known synthetic analogues, the
phthalocyanines (Pcs; 2− 10 Chart 1) represent one of the most widely studied macrocyclic …