Photoactive Hybrid Materials based on Conjugated Porous Polymers and Inorganic Nanoparticles

Abstract

This review explores the current state‐of‐the‐art for functional photoactive hybrids containing inorganic nanoparticles (magnetic and metal) and conjugated organic porous polymers (CPPs). Albeit new in the field, with the first hybrid material of this kind reported in 2012, those materials have gained increasing interest in applications such as sensing, heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, and lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs). This review describes the two main synthetic strategies for those materials, namely, 1) using the chemical and morphological features (e.g., porosity and complexation sites) of CPPs to in situ form nanoparticles and 2) fabricating the nanoparticle for templating CPPs. Also, some selected applications for those hybrid materials are revised and discussed.

Keywords

• conjugated porous polymers
• magnetic nanoparticles
• metal nanoparticles
• photoactive hybrid materials