Metal Nanoparticle/Porphyrinoid Hybrids

Abstract

In this chapter, electronic properties of Au/porphyrin or phthalocyanine (porphin) hybrid nanostructure are mentioned. The coordination ability of porphin onto metal nanostructure is relatively strong exploiting orbital hybridization between π-orbitals of porphin. The orbital hybridization gives some useful properties which cannot be obtained from isolated metal nanostructure or porphin.