Effect of fullerenes on crystallization-induced aggregation in polymer photovoltaics casting solutions

Macromolecules

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1046-1055

  Sobkowicz, Margaret J ^a   Jones, Ronald L ^a   Kline, R Joseph ^a   DeLongchamp, Dean M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION RATE; ANNEALED FILMS; CASTING SOLUTIONS; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; METHYL ESTERS; O-DICHLOROBENZENE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAICS; POOR SOLVENTS; RHEOMETRY; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; STABILITY ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMOREVERSIBLE;

BUTYRIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; RHEOLOGY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84862954602     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma202083q     Document Type: Article

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