AUTHOR=Liu Pan , Shi Ganhui , Chen Xuegang 

TITLE=Terpyridine-Containing π-Conjugated Polymers for Light-Emitting and Photovoltaic Materials

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry

VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.592055

DOI=10.3389/fchem.2020.592055

ISSN=2296-2646

ABSTRACT=2,2´:6´,2´´-Terpyridine is versatile moiety for construct abundant novel small molecules or polymers. Extending or coupling with the π-conjugation structures can bring some interesting opto-elctronical properties. This mini-review summarized the significant progress of the terpyridine-containing π-conjugated polymers for light-emitting and photovoltaic materials for the past decades. Coordinating with metal ions, terpyridine exhibits large potentialities for creating metallo-supramolecular or metallo-polymer materials, therefore, much attention has been paid to the terpyridine-based metallo-polymers and selected examples will be described. A special emphasis on discussion about properties of these functional systems opens prospects for their application in light-to-electricity or electricity-to-light conversion fields.