Tetrafullerene conjugates for all-organic photovoltaics

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3189-3196

  Fernández, Gustavo ^a   Sánchez, Luis ^a   Veldman, Dirk ^b   Wienk, Martijn M ^b   Atienza, Carmen ^c   Guldi, Dirk M ^c   Janssen, René A J ^b   Martín, Nazario ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; OLIGOMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

NANOCONJUGATES; PHOTOPHYSICAL STUDIES;

FULLERENES;

ALDEHYDE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; OLIGOMER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONJUGATE; COVALENT BOND; DISSOCIATION; ENERGY; FILM; SYNTHESIS;

FULLERENES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 42149180050     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo702740d     Document Type: Article

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