A model oligomer approach to light-emitting semiconducting polymers

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-265

  Van Hutten, Paul F ^a   Krasnikov, Victor V ^a   Hadziioannou, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; POLYMER;

CONFORMATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0032933949     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar980032f     Document Type: Review

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