Semiconducting conjugated polymer-inorganic tetrapod nanocomposites

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 8086-8092

  Jung, Jaehan ^a   Pang, Xinchang ^a   Feng, Chaowei ^a   Lin, Zhiqun ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIFUNCTIONAL LIGAND; EFFECTIVE DISPERSION; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; INORGANIC-ORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES; MULTIPLE INJECTIONS; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); NANOCOMPOSITES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

EID: 84879524446     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la400925y     Document Type: Article

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