Tetraamidometallo-phthalocyanines Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Morphology versus central metal effects on NO2 detection

Conjugates of Nanomaterials with Phthalocyanines

“…laser printing devices, optical data storage in the form of rewritable optical media (CD-RW) [198], photochemical and photovoltaic cells for energy conversion [199], non-linear optics [200,201], Langmuir-Blodgett thin films [198,199], field effect transistors [200], chemical sensors [201], liquid crystals [202][203][204], catalysts for the degradation of pollutants [205] and photocatalysts [206][207][208][209][210][211][212], to medicine particularly as photosensitizers in PDT [213][214][215][216].…”

Films of substituted zinc phthalocyanines as active layers of chemiresistive sensors for ammonia detection

“…19,54 Despite the high interest in such sensors, there have been limited systematic studies on the effect of the type of substituent and structural features of films on their chemiresistive response to gases. Most of the scientific research is devoted to the study of the effect of central metals on the sensor response to various gases, 55,56 but substituents were also shown to affect the sensor response to various gases. 57,58 For example, the effect of hexyl sulfanyl, hexyl sulfonyl and p-carboxyphenoxy substituents in nickel phthalocyanines on the sensor response of heterostructures used as active layers of electrical sensors operating on the basis of organic heterojunction effects was studied by S ahin et al 58 Kilinç along with co-authors 59 studied the effect of substituent length on the mesogenic, electrophysical and sensor properties of tetrasubstituted bisphthalocyanines of lutetium Lu(III)(Pc(SC n H 2n+1 ) 4 ) 2 with n = 6, 10, 16.…”

Some Properties of an Unmetalled phthalocyanine Obtained by Chance at Low Temperature

“…The most commonly used method for the synthesis of Pc is cyclotetramerization of the phthalonitrile to form a Pc. A Pc offers 16 possible sites for peripheral and non-peripheral substitutions and a central cavity with metal ions and this makes them useful compounds in different fields and them are applied as dye, catalysis in a wide range of areas (2,3) non-linear optics (4), Langmuir-Blodgett thin films (5,6), chemical sensors (7), as photosensitizers in PDT (8)(9)(10)(11) and as photocatalysts (12)(13)(14). On the other hand, ball-type structures of Pcs were first obtained as a new class of compound by Zefirova in 2002 (15,16) and both Pcs and their ball-type derivatives (BPcs) have gained significance in a number of fields including their use as photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer (17)(18)(19)(20).…”