Synthesis and characterization of new polyfluorene derivatives: Using phenanthro[9,10-d]imidazole group as a building block for deep blue light-emitting polymer

Polymer Bulletin

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-289

  Wang, Zhiming ^a,b   Gao, Zhao ^a   Xue, Shanfeng ^a   Liu, Yulong ^a   Zhang, Wensi ^a   Gu, Cheng ^a   Shen, Fangzhong ^a   Lu, Ping ^a   Ma, Yuguang ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

^b SHENYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Deep blue emission; Imidazole; Multifunctional; Phenanthrenequinone; Polymer

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CIE COORDINATES; DEEP BLUE; DEEP-BLUE EMISSIONS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; IMIDAZOLE; IMIDAZOLE GROUP; MULTIFUNCTIONAL; PHENANTHRENEQUINONE; POLYFLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 84864608145     PISSN: 01700839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00289-012-0710-5     Document Type: Article

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