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Honeycomb-patterned phthalocyanine films with photo-active antibacterial activities
Xinyu Zhou1, Zihui Chen, Yuzhen Wang
1Department of Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Key Lab of Organic Photoelectrons & Molecular Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China. zhangfs@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We report honeycomb-patterned phthalocyanine (Pc) films fabricated by self-assembly of dodecyloxy-azo-Zinc phthalocyanine (daZnPc) using the breath figure (BF) technique. These ultrathin Pc films exhibit a robust photo-dependent antibacterial effect against Escherichia coli (E. coli).

