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Polyfluorene (PFO) is a light-emitting polymer due to its
electroluminescence .The building block of the polymere is the
fluorene unit.The first blue light emitting polymerdiode was produced with a substituted polyfluorene (poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene)). [cite journal
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