“…Among the inorganic materials used are the polyoxometalates (POMs). These oxide aggregates constitute a unique class of molecular metal–oxygen clusters which show remarkable properties: enormous diversity of structures, variety of their properties based on their shapes, sizes, and charge densities, allowing their application in several different fields ranging from materials science to electrocatalysis. − Specifically, POM-based multilayer systems have been fabricated with a variety of cationic components, such as ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes, conducting and redox active polymers, − metalloporphyrins, polyelectrolytes, ,, and to a much lower extent with dye molecules; − the few published examples refer to POM-based LbL films with cationic phenothiazine and phenoxazine dye derivatives. , To the best of our knowledge, no LbL hybrid films of POMs and triarylmethane dye cations have been published. However, a few salts of triarylmethane dye cations (ca.…”