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Status and Prospects of Aggregation-Induced Emission Materials in Organic Optoelectronic Devices

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Aggregation induced emission (AIE) luminogens (AIEgens) have great potential in the field of organic optoelectronic devices because of their highly efficient emission property in solid state. For example, high efficiency organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on AIEgens have been developed successfully. Some AIEgens also show good photovoltaic response properties for organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic photodetectors (OPDs), and lasing properties for optically pumping organic lasers (OLs). The review will cover the status and prospects of AIEgens in OLEDs, OLs, OSCs and OPDs. It is expected that AIEgens will become an important organic optoelectronic material system in the future.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 21788102), and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, China (2019B030301003).

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Ma, D. Status and Prospects of Aggregation-Induced Emission Materials in Organic Optoelectronic Devices. Top Curr Chem (Z) 379, 16 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-021-00328-8

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