Recent advances in electrochromic polymers

Electrochromic polymers are attractive materials with enormous potential in the rapidly developing area of plastic electronics due to their flexibility, low-power consumption, ease of processing and low processing cost. Electrochromic devices created with electrochromic polymers are likely to be alternatives or supplements to the conventional inorganic electrochromic devices, which face challenges of durability and electrochromic properties. Several novel electrochromic polyimides, polyamides, and polynorbornenes prepared via polycondensation, ring-opening metathesis polymerisation (ROMP), etc., are introduced in this article. These various polymer species exhibit high thermal stability and mechanical strength. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.