Perylene compounds possess a large π-conjugated system and are easy to be chemically modified by various functional groups. These unique structural characteristics endow with favourable physical and chemical properties as well as special functions, and enable perylene compounds to have a wide range of potential applications in the fields of material science, supramolecular chemistry, biology, pharmacy, medicine and so on. In particular, perylene-based organic photoelectric materials have been widely investigated and many important achievements have been made. More recently, more and more effort has been dedicated to other possible applications of perylene compounds, and the relative research has been expanded to many fields, especially the biomedical research has become an increasingly active emerging field, and attracted wide attention in recent years. Combining with our researches and referring other works from literatures in five years, this paper for the first time systematically reviewed the recent advance in the current research and development of perylene compounds in the fields of material, biological and medical sciences including organic optoelectronic materials, nanomaterials, biomedicinal photosensitizers, fluorescent labeling and imaging agents, drug carriers, artificial diagnostic agents, artificial ion receptors and molecular probes. This review mainly focused on strengthening the effects of structures on properties and applications. At last the perspectives of the foreseeable future are also presented.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Perylene compounds as organic optoelectronic materials
2.1 Perylene compounds as organic solar cells materials
2.2 Perylene compounds as optoelectronic information materials
3 Perylene compounds as organic nanomaterials
4 Perylene comounds as biomedicine photosensitizers
5 Perylene comounds as fluorescent labling and imaging agents
6 Perylene comounds as drug carriers
7 Perylene comounds as artificial diagnostic agents
8 Perylene comounds as artificial ion receptors
8.1 Perylene comounds as artificial cationic receptors
8.2 Perylene comounds as artificial anion receptors
9 Perylene comounds as molecular probes
10 Conclusion and outlook