Organometallic Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Synthesis and Applications

Abstract

Conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) have gain great research interest during the past decades. The incorporation of phosphorescent transition-metal complexes into CPEs backbones could yield organometallic CPEs (OMCPEs), which exhibit unique physical and chemical properties, enabling their applications in electroluminescence device, sensing, bioimaging and photodynamic therapy fields. This review begins with a brief introduction of synthetic approaches towards OMCPEs, followed by summary of the recent advances for applications. Some outlooks are also highlighted at the end.