Patent ID: 8324342

Claim:
A porphyrin coordination polymer nanostructured material, comprising: a network of a plurality of molecules of pyridylporphyrin coordinatively bound through pyridyl groups to a plurality of connecting metal ions, wherein a morphology of the porphyrin coordination polymer nanostructured material comprises at least one of a nanosphere, a nanospheroidal cluster, a nontubular nanorod, a nanofiber, and a nontubular polygonal nanostructure, wherein the nontubular polygonal nanostructure is greater than or equal to approximately 35 nm in size and less than or equal to approximately 350 nm from a vertex to an opposite vertex in at least 2 dimensions and wherein the nontubular nanorod is greater than or equal to approximately 30 nm in size and less than or equal to approximately 1.2 micrometers in length.