The upsurge in energy demand have laid burden on fossil fuels. This burden will eventually lead to depletion of fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are detrimental to the environment. The alternatives for fossil fuels are still in prototype stage. To date, technology utilizing ruthenium-based complexes in catalysis, perovskites and inorganic compounds (including silicon metal) in energy conversions and carbonaceous-oxide multiparty and mesoporous compounds in energy storage have shown excellent performance in the respective fields, however often suffer from various critical issues. The attempts are being made to eradicate these issues by designing the newer multi-functional materials for use in greener way in catalysis, truly energy conversion devices and efficient energy storage materials. In this context, the nature-based biological agent, porphyrins and their derivatives are promising and are being developed because of its versatile and tuneable properties that mimics the principle of photoenergy-conversion in light harvesting and in biological catalysis. Porphyrin can be engineered to cope with the desired characteristics to design a new functional motif and are expected to make a major contribution in the near future. At present, A metal free porphyrin derivative incorporated with ionic liquids have been emerged as excellent photocatalyst under greener protocols giving a very good yields, stability, recyclability in several C-C, C-H bond formation and other organic transformations. The oligomeric porphyrin structures with several donors, accepting agents and conjugation have recently shown appreciable 9.3% PEC in a truly energy generating DSSC system. The doping of these structures with variable oxidation states enables it for the use faradaic type electrode material in supercapacitors. The porphyrin-carbonaceous based electrode material presents a typical stable type nanostructured surfaces morphology giving mixed type of capacitance with 571 F/g at 1.0 A/g supercapacitance and better capacitance retention. This talk review the use of porphyrin-based materials for emerging key applications such as energy conversion, energy storage and photo catalysis. It is divided into three key sections focusing on latest development of porphyrin-based materials in photovoltaics, photocatalysts, and energy storage devices.
Darpan Vijaykumar Bhuse received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Rajaram College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. Perused his master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry from Jaisingpur College Jaisingpur, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. He received his doctorate degree (PhD) in Dye sensitized solar cell and Photocatalysis from Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT, Vellore. His research is focused on Porphyrin synthesis, DSSC and Supercapacitor.
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