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Practical Applications of Phthalocyanines – from Dyes and Pigments to Materials for Optical, Electronic and Photo-electronic Devices

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Phthalocyanines (Pc) produced for 75 years as blue and green pigments are the most important organic colorants.Color fastness, homogeneity, intensity, stability combined with a simple synthetic access is the prerequisite of this mostly planar aromatic π-system for application as colorants.In the recent years the Pc found also applications in CD/ Rs, as blue and green colors in LCDs, as photoconductor in laser printers and as p-conductor and absorber in organic solar cells.The system exhibits a great structural variability (different substituents and metals/metalloids in the ligand) in order to tune different properties.For various applications is also important a relatively simple synthesis.These are the presuppositions for new applications of Pcs in future also in other fields.

Source: Macroheterocycles

DOI: 10.6060/mhc2012.120990w

Authors: Dieter Wöhrle, Günter Schnurpfeil, Sergey G. Makarov, Alexander Kazarin, Olga N. Suvorova

Institutions: University of Bremen, Russian Academy of Sciences, G.A. Razuvaev Institute of Organometallic Chemistry

Language: English

Topic: Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2103633558

FWCI: 4.694

Cites: 6

Cited by: 270

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