The phase behavior of a polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction system that contains bimolecular crystals

Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 499-503

  Miller, Nichole Cates ^a   Gysel, Roman ^a   Miller, Chad E ^a,b   Verploegen, Eric ^a,b   Beiley, Zach ^a   Heeney, Martin ^c   McCulloch, Iain ^c   Bao, Zhenan ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b   McGehee, Michael D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; differential scanning calorimetry (DSC); phase diagrams; X ray

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; EUTECTIC TEMPERATURE; GRAZING INCIDENCE; IN-SITU; METHYL ESTERS; POLYMER SIDE-CHAINS; POLYMER-FULLERENE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

BUTYRIC ACID; CALORIMETERS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ESTERS; EUTECTICS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING; SCANNING; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE; X RAYS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 79952170977     PISSN: 08876266     EISSN: 10990488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/polb.22214     Document Type: Article

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