Nanoengineering coaxial carbon nanotube-dual-polymer heterostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6058-6066

  Stranks, Samuel D ^a   Yong, Chaw Keong ^a   Alexander Webber, Jack A ^a   Weisspfennig, Christian ^a   Johnston, Michael B ^a   Herz, Laura M ^a   Nicholas, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; F8BT; molecular heterojunctions; nanoengineering; P3HT; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

COAXIAL STRUCTURES; F8BT; LAYER STRUCTURES; NANO-ENGINEERING; NEW APPLICATIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; P3HT; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POLYMER NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; ULTRA-FAST;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84864206211     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301133v     Document Type: Article

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