Morphology and phase segregation of spin-casted films of polyfluorene/PCBM blends

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 8291-8301

  Nilsson, Svante ^a   Bernasik, Andrzej ^b   Budkowski, Andrzej ^c   Moons, Ellen ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; EVAPORATION; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS; THIN FILMS;

BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER (PCBM); PHASE SEGREGATION; POLYFLUORENE; SPIN-CASTED FILMS;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 36348968912     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma070712a     Document Type: Article

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