Fibrillar morphology of derivatives of poly(3-alkylthiophene)s by solvent vapor annealing: Effects of conformational transition and conjugate length

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5996-6006

  Wang, Haiyang ^a   Liu, Jiangang ^a   Xu, Yaozhuo ^a   Han, Yanchun ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CONFORMATIONS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DICHLOROMETHANE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS; THIOPHENE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; CONJUGATION LENGTH; FIBRILLAR MORPHOLOGY; POLY(3-ALKYLTHIOPHENE); POLY(3-DODECYLTHIOPHENE); SEMICONDUCTOR POLYMERS; SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; SOLVENT-VAPOR ANNEALING;

VAPORS;

EID: 84878058451     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp402039g     Document Type: Article

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