Self-assembling thiophene dendrimers with a hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene core-synthesis, characterization and performance in bulk heterojunction solar cells

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 457-466

  Wong, Wallace W H ^a   Ma, Chang Qi ^b   Pisula, Wojciech ^c   Yan, Chao ^a   Feng, Xinliang ^c   Jones, David J ^a   Müllen, Klaus ^c   Janssen, René A J ^d   Bäuerle, Peter ^b   Holmes, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; COLUMNAR STRUCTURES; CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; FLUORENYL; FUNCTIONALIZED; HEXA-PERI-HEXABENZOCORONENES; HEXAGONAL PACKING; HIGH YIELD; METHYL ESTERS; MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION; ORDERED STRUCTURES; ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SELF-ASSOCIATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SOLID-STATE MORPHOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; SUZUKI-MIYAURA COUPLING; THIOPHENE DENDRIMERS; THIOPHENE DENDRONS; UV-VIS ABSORPTIONS; WIDE ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DENDRIMERS; ESTERS; EXPERIMENTS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATERIALS; PHASE SEPARATION; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIOPHENE;

SOLID STATE DEVICES;

EID: 75249100100     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm903272y     Document Type: Article

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