Polymer crystallization of partially miscible polythiophene/fullerene mixtures controls morphology

Macromolecules

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5722-5726

  Kozub, Derek R ^a   Vakhshouri, Kiarash ^a   Orme, Lisa M ^a   Wang, Cheng ^b   Hexemer, Alexander ^b   Gomez, Enrique D ^a,c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLORY-HUGGINS; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGES; LENGTH SCALE; MATERIAL PROCESSING; MISCIBLE BLEND; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; POLY-THIOPHENE; POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; X-PARAMETERS;

CHARACTERIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FULLERENES; MIXTURES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SOLUBILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 79960505295     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma200855r     Document Type: Article

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