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Porous Porphyrin Nanoarchitectures on Surfaces
Author(s) -
Makiura Rie,
Kitagawa Hiroshi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of inorganic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1099-0682
pISSN - 1434-1948
DOI - 10.1002/ejic.201000730
Subject(s) - porphyrin , nanotechnology , porosity , nanoscopic scale , nanostructure , fabrication , characterization (materials science) , chemistry , porous medium , polymer , self assembly , metal organic framework , materials science , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , adsorption
Controlling the size and the growth direction of porous hybrid objects – metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) or porous coordination polymers (PCPs) – at the nanoscale is a critical issue for enabling their use in a number of potential applications that have arisen from the current remarkable activity in studying such porous materials. This microreview describes the recent progress in the design, growth, and characterization of multidimensional nanoarchitectures by employing porphyrin‐based components. The versatility of the sequential bottom‐up fabrication process, which uses multitopic molecular building units assembled by appropriately chosen linkers, is suitable to be extended to the formation of a rich variety of nanostructures endowed with pores on surfaces.