Regioregularity effect on conformation and opto-electronic properties in single polythiophene chains

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8098, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Adachi, Takuji ^a   Brazard, Johanna ^a   Ono, Robert J ^a   Bielawski, Christopher W ^a   Bout, David A Vanden ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Morphology; P3HT; Regioregularity; Single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATION LENGTH; CRITICAL FACTORS; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; MONOMER UNITS; NEW RESULTS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; P3HT; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER BACKBONES; POLYMER MORPHOLOGY; POLYTHIOPHENE CHAIN; REGIO-REGULAR; REGIORANDOM; REGIOREGULARITY; RR-P3HT; SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE POLYMER CHAINS; SINGLE-CHAIN LEVEL;

ANISOTROPY; CHROMOPHORES; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

CONFORMATIONS;

EID: 80053478153     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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