Molecular spintronic and photocatalysis are two fields in constant evolution. While the first deals with the coupling of two physical properties, the flux of charge carriers and the spin of the electron, the second is focusing on the enhancement of the electron transfer of chemical species under light irradiation. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in carbon nanotubes as new components for molecular spintronics, since they possess high spin coherence, and as ideal materials for molecular catalysis, for their tremendous electronic surface properties. Our work consisted in conceiving inorganic complexes with both physical (magnetic or optic) and chemical (ability of realizing non covalent assembly on single-walled carbon nanotubes) properties, in order to create new nanotube-complex nanohybrids which could be exploited for molecular spintronics or photocatalysis applications. The properties of the synthesized complexes were extensively characterized (Chapter 2), and the most promising molecules were successfully assembled onto carbon nanotubes, as is proven by the spectroscopic measurement which were performed (Chapter 3). Finally, since both domains of applications we considered involve electronic transportation, specific studies were realized on field effect transistor devices with carbon nanotubes as the conduction channel (Chapter 4). They evidence strong electronic communications between the inorganic complexes and the carbon nanotubes onto which they are assembled in the devices. Even if in the end no coupling was observed between the magnetic properties of the inorganic complexes and the transport ones of the carbon nanotubes, numerous unexpected and very interesting phenomena such as ambipolar behavior, charge transfer effect or bond cleavage were evidenced. As for the optoelectronic coupling which was investigated for photocatalytic applications, a first step was made as the transport of the carbon nanotube field effect transistor devices onto which a complex was assembled shows a strong dependence with the applied light irradiation.
