Recent advances in the functional applications of conducting metallopolymers

摘要

As promising optoelectronic materials, conducting metallopolymers (CMPs), which are hybrid polymers based on a pi-conjugated organic backbone combined with a metal complex, have attracted rapidly increasing interest in recent years. In addition to the properties directly introduced to the materials by incorporating a metal complex into an organic backbone, the optical and electronic properties of CMPs can rationally be tuned by varying the strength of electronic interactions between the two components. These tunable and varied functionalities have led to applications of CMPs in many different fields, including chemical sensors, memory devices, catalysis, photovoltaics, and light-emitting diodes. Recent advances in the development of CMPs are reviewed herein along with current challenges in these fields and how the use of CMPs could potentially fulfill the requirements. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.