“…In addition, the BODIPYs are applied to laser dyes, photovoltaics, electrochemical luminescent materials, bio-imaging, and photodynamic therapy (Ortiz et al, 2010 ; Benstead et al, 2011 ; Awuah and You, 2012 ; Boens et al, 2012 ; Kamkaew et al, 2013 ; Bessette and Hanan, 2014 ; Ni and Wu, 2014 ; Singh and Gayathri, 2014 ; Zhao et al, 2015 ; Antina et al, 2016 ). These attractive functions of BODIPY and other dipyrrin complexes encouraged us and other researchers to incorporate the dipyrrin complexes into the frameworks of the supramolecular self-assemblies (Shin et al, 2010 ; Antina et al, 2015 ).…”