Side-chain degradation of ultrapure π-conjugated oligomers: Implications for organic electronics

Advanced Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 597-602

  Abbel, Robert ^a   Wolffs, Martin ^a   Bovee, Ralf A A ^a   Van Dongen, Joost L J ^a   Lou, Xianwen ^a   Henze, Oliver ^b   Feast, W James ^b,c   Meijer, E W ^a   Schenning, Albertus P H J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Elastogran GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXYGEN; POLYACRYLATES; POLYMERS;

CONJUGATED MATERIALS; CONJUGATED OLIGOMERS; CONJUGATED SYSTEMS; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; ELECTRONIC DEVICES; MALDI-TOF MS; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTIONS; MONODISPERSE; MONODISPERSITY; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; OXIDATIVE DEGRADATIONS; SEXITHIOPHENE; SIDE CHAINS; SINGLET OXYGENS; TIME-OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRIES;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 60349129610     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200802416     Document Type: Article

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