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Supramolecular Porphyrin Nanorods for Light Energy Conversion

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Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems

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Recent developments of supramolecular bar-shaped molecular architectures of porphyrins are widely described. The utilization of synthetic and supramolecular techniques enables one to effectively organize molecular aggregates, which possess light energy conversion functionalities such as light harvesting, charge separation, and carrier transport. In the photovoltaic and photocalytic (hydrogen evolution) measurements, these highly organized architectures quantitatively exhibit drastic enhancements of light energy conversion properties as compared to the reference non-organized system.

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The author thanks and expresses gratitude to his collaborators and coworkers whose names appear in the references. This work was partially supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (23108721 & 23681025), PRESTO project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2009–2013. All figures, schemes, and tables are reproduced from the related references with permission of the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Hasobe, T., Sakai, H. (2015). Supramolecular Porphyrin Nanorods for Light Energy Conversion. In: Akasaka, T., Osuka, A., Fukuzumi, S., Kandori, H., Aso, Y. (eds) Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55357-1_28

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