“…[2,5] Another solution to the low solubility of these attractive semiconductors is to make colloidal solutions of Pc nanoparticles. Several effective methods have been developed to prepare Pc nanoparticles, such as reprecipitation, [6,7] laser ablation, [8,9] ball milling, [10] microwave method, [11] and complexation-mediated solubilization. [3,12] The solvent-stabilized small photoconductive nanoparticles of metal phthalocyanines (MPcs) that we reported recently [13,14] at least have the following advantages: 1) The high surface-to-volume ratio of these nanoparticles will enhance the efficiency of photoinduced charge separation, since it is believed that only excitons generated near the surface of the particles significantly contribute to charge separation, whereas light-induced excitons near the center of the large particles are most probably deactivated before reaching the surface.…”