“…2 shows the electronic absorption spectra of the free porphyrin Pp-IX in DMF solution, as well as those corresponding to the metalloporphyrins complex and the hybrid materials. The spectra are characterized by an intense band near 400 nm (which is branded as the Soret band, 405 nm for Pp-IX, 420 nm for Zn-Pp-IX, and 410 nm for Pp-IX-Si-1, respectively) and a series of smaller bands, between 500 and 620 nm, assigned to the Q bands which result from the electronic transitions (505, 540, 575, 617, 630 nm for Pp-IX, 505, 546, 585, 616, 630 nm for Zn-Pp-IX, and 505, 535, 577, 617, 630 nm for Pp-IX-Si-1, respectively) [35]. As shown in Fig.…”