Control of charge transport in a semiconducting copolymer by solvent-induced long-range order

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Luzio, Alessandro ^a   Criante, Luigino ^a   D'Innocenzo, Valerio ^a,b   Caironi, Mario ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

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EID: 84890054501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03425     Document Type: Article

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