Design strategies for organic semiconductors beyond the molecular formula

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 699-704

  Henson, Zachary B ^a   Müllen, Klaus ^b   Bazan, Guillermo C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84866839812     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1422     Document Type: Review

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