A review on diverse applications of electrochemically active functional metallopolymers

The fusion of monodentate or multidentate ditopic organic moieties with transition metal ions leads to the development of novel metallopolymers through complexation reactions. The properties of these metallopolymers can be easily tuned by appropriately substituting functional groups in the organic backbone or by introducing a new metal ion as the inorganic component, which resulted in a wide variation of electrical, magnetic, and optical properties in the newly developed functional materials. As a result, these metallopolymers are being designed and developed with remarkable potential in several fields, such as memory devices, stimuli-responsive materials, luminescence materials, self-healing, supercapacitors as well as biomedicine, and further potential applications are still emerging. In this review, we highlighted the recent advancement and astounding applications of functional metallopolymers.

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This article presents the synthesis method of novel metallopolymers through complexation reactions and explores their potential applications in various fields.