On the role of single regiodefects and polydispersity in regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene): Defect distribution, synthesis of defect-free chains, and a simple model for the determination of crystallinity

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4790-4805

  Kohn, Peter ^a   Huettner, Sven ^a   Komber, Hartmut ^b   Senkovskyy, Volodymyr ^b   Tkachov, Roman ^b   Kiriy, Anton ^b   Friend, Richard H ^a   Steiner, Ullrich ^a   Huck, Wilhelm T S ^c,d   Sommer, Jens Uwe ^b   Sommer, Michael ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST TRANSFERS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEFECT DISTRIBUTION; DEFECT-FREE; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; DEVICE PARAMETERS; ELECTRONIC PROCESS; END-GROUP ANALYSIS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; REGIO-REGULAR; REGIODEFECTS; REGIOREGULARITY; SEMICRYSTALLINES; STRUCTURE FORMATIONS; SYNTHETIC PROTOCOLS;

CALORIMETRY; CARRIER MOBILITY; CATALYSTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; POLYCONDENSATION; RANGE FINDING;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

NICKEL; POLY(3 HEXYLTHIOPHENE); THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CATALYST; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISPERSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIMULATION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84858252931     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja210871j     Document Type: Article

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