摘要： Conventional lighting systems, such as the incandescent light bulbs used on the offshore oil rigs are becoming obsolete due to high energy consumption, poor life span and additional costs of waste treatment and disposal. Furthermore, they are susceptible to fire when exposed to an oxygen rich environment, posing a threat to the oil rig workers. Recent advances have led to the development of polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs) as substitutes to these prevailing light sources. The PLEDs have advantages over the incandescent bulbs, for being durable, low energy consumption and environmental friendly. Consequently, the increasing research collaborations among the academic researchers and industrial stakeholders are gaining momentum in ensuring the advancements of PLEDs in terms of economic value and performance. This paper is aimed at reviewing the recent advances in the field of current innovation and performance of PLEDs materials. The paper focuses on the important experiments on the PLEDs materials towards the upgrading and modification of anode and holes injection/transporting layer and the influence of doping effect. In spite of that, this paper discovered that synthetic materials, such as synthetic silicates are the commonly used materials in the current PLEDs, and recommends the incorporation of cost effective inorganic clay-polymer nanocomposite-based LEDs as a way forward to reducing the material costs and provide more environmental friendly PLEDs materials.