Multiporphyrin Arrays Fundamentals and Applications

This book provides a comprehensive review of the fundamentals and applications of multiporphyrin arrays ranging from basic spectroscopic features to a wide range of promising applications such as molecular wires, switches, sensors, artificial photosynthetic devices, and dye-sensitized solar cells based on a variety of multiporphyrin architectures using covalent and/or noncovalent molecular assemblies. Particularly, it focuses on energy and electron transfer processes occurring in multiporphyrin arrays in various environments such as single-molecule level, composite materials, LB films, and solid surface to provide better understanding of photofunctional molecular architectures.

Single-Molecule Photophysical Properties of Various Directly linked Porphyrin Arrays, Dongho Kim and Atsuhiro OsukaElectron Transfer Through Butadiyne-Linked Porphyrin-Based Molecular Wires, Bo Albinsson and Harry L. AndersonRecent Applications of MCD Spectroscopy to Porphyrinoids, John Mack and Nagao KobayashiPhthalocyanine–Porphyrin Heteroarrays: A Perfect Marriage Between Two Unique Macrocycles, Giovanni Bottari, Gema de la Torre, Dirk M. Guldi, and Tomas TorresPrimary Photoevents in Self-Assembled Complexes: Multiporphyrin Arrays and "Semiconductor CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystal-Porphyrin" Composites, Eduard Zenkevich and Christian von Borczyskowski)Structural and Functional Mimics of Light-Harvesting Systems in Bacterial Photosynthesis, Yoshiaki KobukeLight-Harvesting, Excitation Energy/Electron Transfer and Photo-Regulation in Artificial Photosynthetic Systems, Yuichi Terazono, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore, and Devens GustArtificial Photosynthetic Antenna-Reaction Center Mimics, Francis D’Souza and Osamu ItoApplication of Multiporphyrin Arrays to Solar Energy Conversion, Simon Mathew and Hiroshi Imahori Self-Assembled Composite Materials of Porphyrins for Optoelectronics, Taku HasobeVectorial Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Langmuir–Blodgett Films of Porphyrin-Based Donor–Acceptor Systems, Nikolai V. Tkachenko and Helge Lemmetyinen Supramolecular Energy and Electron Transfer Processes and Their Switching, Joe OtsukiPorphyrin Nanoclusters for Sensoring Chemical and Physical Stimuli, Akihiko TsudaEnergy and Electron Transfer Processes in Porphyrin Dendrimers, Myung-Seok Choi and Woo-Dong JangPush-Pull Porphyrins for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Chen-Yu Yeh, Ching-Yao Lin, and Eric Wei-Guang Diau

Dongho Kim received his BS in 1980 from Seoul National University, Seal, South Korea, and Ph.D. in 1984 from Washington University, Washington, DC. After postdoctoral research at Princeton University, New Jersey, he joined the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, South Korea, in 1986. In 2000, he moved to Yonsei University, Seal, South Korea as a professor of chemistry. He received the Scientist of the Month Award (1999), the Sigma-Aldrich Award (2005), the Korea Science Award in Chemistry (2006), and the Star Faculty Award (2006) and was selected as the Underwood Professor at Yonsei University (2007). Since 2002, he has been a fellow of The Korea Academy of Science and Technology. Currently, he is leading the Center for Smart Nano-Conjugates through the World Class University Program. His research activity is focused on the experimental investigation of pi-conjugated molecular systems such as porphyrin, pyrene, perylenebisimide, and thiophene and their assemblies with particular interest in excitation dynamics both in ensemble and at single-molecule level. He has coauthored more than 350 articles and about 15 reviews in journals and books. He has served as an editorial board member for Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, and Journal of Physical Chemistry.