Evolution of laterally phase-separated polyfluorene blend morphology studied by x-ray spectromicroscopy

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3347-3352

  McNeill, Christopher R ^a   Watts, Benjamin ^b,e   Thomsen, Lars ^c,d   Belcher, Warwick J ^c   Greenham, Neil C ^a   Dastoor, Paul C ^c   Ade, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; DOMAIN SIZE; FLOW OF MATERIAL; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; PHASE INVERSION; PHENYLENEDIAMINE; POLYFLUORENE BLENDS; RICH PHASE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; TIME SPENT; VAPOR INTERFACE; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION; WEIGHT RATIOS; X-RAY SPECTROMICROSCOPY;

COALESCENCE; FILM GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE MODULATION;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 66549094790     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801816r     Document Type: Article

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