Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine as Materials for Glass Coating—Structure and Properties

The chapter is an introduction to the nature of phthalocyaninesPhthalocyanines as materials for glass coatingsGlass coatings. Data of the close analogues porphyrinsPorphyrins is reported. The most widely used synthesis methodsSynthesis methods of porphyrinsPorphyrins and phthalocyaninesPhthalocyanines are discussed. The spectroscopic characteristic of the compoundsCompound is provided based on UV-ViSUV-ViS and photoluminescence studies. The nonlinear opticalOptical and electric propertiesProperties of various metalMetal-phthalocyaninesPhthalocyanines are discussed. Current and future applicationsApplications of the phthalocyaninesPhthalocyanines are presented. This chapter is an introduction to the second one entitled “PhthalocyaninePhthalocyanines and porphyrinPorphyrins filmsFilm on glassGlass substrateSubstrate—processing, propertiesProperties, and applicationsApplications” where characterizations of hybrid materials are described in detail.