Fabrication and photoelectric conversion properties of self-assembled functional films based on porphyrins

Porphyrins exhibit excellent photoelectronic properties and thermal stability due to their special π-electronic system and conjugated delocalized structure, which have been widely used in bionics, catalysis, medicine and materials science. With the progress of self-assembly technology, porphyrins as the building blocks for self-assembled ultrathin films reveal the significant superiority. This review focuses on the fabrication methods of self-assembled functional films based on porphyrins. And the recent progress of porphyrin self-assembled films applied in photoelectric conversion is summarized.