Thermo-cleavable polymers: Materials with enhanced photochemical stability

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2666-2669

  Manceau, Matthieu ^a   Helgesen, Martin ^a   Krebs, Frederik C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Organic photovoltaics; Photochemical stability; Side chain cleavage; Thermo cleavable conjugated polymers; UV visible absorbance

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; STABILITY;

ABSORBANCES; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; INTRINSIC STABILITY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOCHEMICAL STABILITY; SIDE-CHAINS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 78649444445     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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