Surface Bottom-up Fabrication of Porphyrin-terminated Metal Complex Molecular Wires with Photo-electron Conversion Properties on ITO

We fabricated photoelectron conversion system with porphyrin-terminated “molecular wires” on an ITO surface synthesized using stepwise metal–terpyridine complexation reactions. The efficiency and the electrode potential singnificantly depended on the metal center of the bis(terpyridine) complex unit in the molecular wire.