Tetrahedral n-type materials: Efficient quenching of the excitation of p-type polymers in amorphous films

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 42, 2005, Pages 14530-14531

  Ganesan, Palaniswamy ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoniu ^b,c   Loos, Joachim ^c   Savenije, Tom J ^d   Abellon, Ruben D ^d   Zuilhof, Han ^a   Sudhölter, Ernst J R ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; FILM; PHASE SEPARATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVEFORM;

MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27144513744     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja053689m     Document Type: Article

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