To construct host materials with improved electron mobility to balance the charge transport, three novel bipolar host materials with donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) structure, namely 3,3′-(quinoline-2,6-diyl)bis(9- phenyl-9H-carbazole) (CzB), 9,9′-(quinoline-2,6-diyl)bis(4,1-phenylene))bis(9H- carbazole) (p-BCz), and 9,9′-(quinoline-2,6-diyl)bis(3,1-phenylene))bis(9H-carbazole) (m-BCz), were successfully synthesized by incorporating a quinoline moiety as an accepter and two N-phenylcarbazole groups as donors at various connection sites. Compared with the traditional hosts, here these bipolar hosts demonstrate better conjugation and planarity. In addition, the appended phenyl ring originating from N-phenylcarbazole group is in favor of enhancing their thermal stability showing glass transition temperature (Tg) of 128, 97, and 123 °C, respectively. These Tg values are much higher than some traditional host materials, such as CBP and mCP. The single carrier devices indicate that p-BCz and m-BCz demonstrate higher zero-field electron mobility of 7.0×10−6 and 1.6×10−6 cm2·V−1·s−1 than that (4.0×10−7) of CzB probably because of the connection between benzene ring and quinoline unit. While CzB depicts higher hole mobility than p-BCz and m-BCz by connection of carbazole and quilline units. When applied in red phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PhOLEDs), the device with host p-BCz exhibites the highest electroluminescence performance with turn-on voltage of 3.2 V and maximum external quantum efficiency of 14.1 %. It is ascribed to the para-position connection between carbazole and quinolone units as well as higher electron mobility than other two hosts.