Disclosed are an electroluminescent polymer based on phenanthroimidazole units, a preparation method therefor, and the use thereof. The electroluminescent polymer based on phenanthroimidazole units has a structure as shown in the formula (I), and the side chain thereof contains phenanthroimidazole units. The electroluminescent polymer (1) has the properties of hybridized local and charge-transfer states, which can improve the utilization of excitons and the electroluminescence properties of devices by means of reverse inter-system crossing to effectively utilize triplet state excitons; (2) the phenanthroimidazole unit has a large degree of conjugation and a strong rigidity, which can not only improve the thermal stability of a material, but can also increase the radiation transition rate of the material and improve the light-emitting efficiency thereof; and (3) the raw materials of the polymer are cheap, the synthetic route is simple, and purification is convenient, which is beneficial for industrial scaled-up production thereof. The polymer has a good solubility, and can be used to prepare large-area flexible display devices by means of a solution processing technology. The polymer has great development potential and prospects in the field of organic electronic display.

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A light-emitting composition comprising: a light-emitting group and a polymer comprising: a repeat unit of formula Ar.sup.1 wherein Ar.sup.1 is an arylene repeat unit which is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents; and a repeat unit of formula (I): (I) wherein Ar.sup.2 and Ar.sup.3 each independently represent a C.sub.6-20 arylene group or a 5-20 membered heteroarylene group which is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents and CB represents a conjugation-breaking group which does not provide a conjugation path between Ar.sup.2 and Ar.sup.3; wherein the polymer has a solubility in water or a C.sub.1-8 alcohol at 20° C. of at least 0.1 mg/ml. The composition may be a light-emitting polymer in which the polymer contains the light-emitting group. The light-emitting composition may be part of a particle containing the polymer and a matrix material, e.g. silica. The light-emitting composition may be used in an assay for detection of a target analyte.

The present disclosure provides fluorescent polyindenofluorene polymers or macromers with unique optical properties that are stable. The polymeric fluorophores are useful in various bioassays formats. The inventive polymers are useful in assays relying on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) mechanisms where two fluorophores are used.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a polymer organic EL element that has a low driving voltage, high light emission efficiency, and a long lifespan. The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence element having a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer between the electrodes, wherein the organic layer is constituted by two or more high molecular weight compounds including at least high molecular weight compounds α and β, and the high molecular weight compound α has a substituted triarylamine structural unit represented by a general formula (1) below and has a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 or more and less than 1,000,000 in terms of polystyrene. For the symbols in the formula, see the Description.

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The present disclosure provides fluorescent polyindenofluorene polymers or macromers with unique optical properties that are stable. The polymeric fluorophores are useful in various bioassays formats. The inventive polymers are useful in assays relying on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) mechanisms where two fluorophores are used.

The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer which contains triarylamine repeating units, and at least one metal complex, to methods for the production thereof, and the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, so-called OLEDs (OLED=Organic Light Emitting Diode). The present invention also relates to organic electroluminescent devices which contain said compositions

The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer containing repeat triarylamine units and comprising at least one salt, to processes for production thereof and to the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, called OLEDs (OLED=organic light-emitting diodes). The present invention also further relates to organic electroluminescent devices comprising these compositions.

The present invention generally relates to artificial photosystems and methods of their use, for example in artificial photosynthesis, wherein the artificial photosystems comprise one or more light-harvesting antenna (LHA) comprising a conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) complex (CPEC) comprising a donor CPE and an acceptor CPE, wherein the donor CPE and acceptor CPE are an electronic energy transfer (EET) donor/acceptor pair.

A polymer compound having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR00001##

An aromatic amine derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein Z.sub.1 is a group represented by the following formula (2); Z.sub.2 is a group represented by the following formula (3) or (3′); and P and Q are independently a group represented by the following formula (4) or (5): ##STR00001##