Silica aeorogels doped with different concentrations of water-soluble cationic porphyrins were synthesised by the sol-gel polymerisation of tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS). Porphyrin dimer formation in sol-gel matrices was studied in the function of gelation time, over the porphyrin concentration range up to 10 − 5 M. The deviation from the linearity of Beer-Lambert law starts with porphyrin concentration about 5 ×10 − 6 M. The dimerization constants were estimated. The similar dependence could be observed for the aerogels and the solid thin films.
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