Progress in optoelectronic materials and devices based on aromatic polyimides

Abstract

As an important high performance material with excellent thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties, polyimides have also demonstrated their advantages and increasing applications recently in various organic optoelectronic devices such as organic solar cells, organic field-effect transistors, and organic/polymeric memory devices. In this paper, we reviewed the recent research progress on the material design, synthesis, and applications of aromatic polyimides in organoelectronics, focusing on the optoelectronic functionalization methods, molecular design and preparation strategies, and relations between the molecular structure, optoelectronic properties, and device performances. This review could afford some reference for the further development of aromatic polyimides and their related applications as optoelectronic functional materials for organoelectronic devices.