Fullerene-functionalized donor-acceptor block copolymers through etherification as stabilizers for bulk heterojunction solar cells

Macromolecules

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4101-4114

  Heuken, Maria ^a,b   Komber, Hartmut ^a   Erdmann, Tim ^a   Senkovskyy, Volodymyr ^a   Kiriy, Anton ^a   Voit, Brigitte ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK BASED; BUILDING BLOCKES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CESIUM CARBONATES; COVALENT LINKING; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; FULLERENE CONTENT; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; HYDROXYL GROUPS; HYDROXYSTYRENE; MACROINITIATORS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SYNTHETIC METHODS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BROMINE; CESIUM; ETHERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMERS; STYRENE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

FULLERENES;

EID: 84861385217     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma300473w     Document Type: Article

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