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ReviewMacromolecular rapid communications2026

Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning for Light-Emitting Polymers.

Tian Tian, Yinyin Bao

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Review in Macromolecular rapid communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Tian TianDepartment of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada.
Yinyin BaoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5264-1211

Funding

Fondation Claude et Giuliana 1-005137Helsingin YliopistoSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 190313University of Alberta
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light-emitting polymers (LEPs) combine the luminescent properties of organic emitters with the structural versatility of polymers, supporting applications in solid-state display, chemical sensing, and bioimaging, owning to the efficient tuning of their performance across multiple scales, from monomer units and chain sequence to solid-state packing and solution processing. Recent strategies have expanded emission color space, improved quantum yields, and simplified design rules, evolving from traditional π-conjugated systems to mechanisms driven by aggregation and charge transfer. Yet this multiscale flexibility also creates a vast and complex design space, where the interplay of monomer choice, polymer architecture, and processing methods makes it impossible to exhaustively map their structure-property relationships by empirical means. In this perspective, we review the development of recent design strategies in LEPs, highlighting the key experimental challenges they reveal, and discuss how data-driven approaches, particularly machine learning, can help navigate this complexity and accelerate the discovery and optimization of next-generation LEPs.

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LightMachine LearningPolymersMolecular StructurePolymersdata‐driven methodslight‐emitting polymersmachine learningOLEDthermally activated delayed fluorescence

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PMID41493401
PMCPMC13309150

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