Semi-metallic polymers

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 190-194

  Bubnova, Olga ^a   Khan, Zia Ullah ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Braun, Slawomir ^a   Evans, Drew R ^b   Fabretto, Manrico ^b   Hojati Talemi, Pejman ^b   Dagnelund, Daniel ^a   Arlin, Jean Baptiste ^c   Geerts, Yves H ^c   Desbief, Simon ^d   Breiby, Dag W ^e   Andreasen, Jens W ^f   Lazzaroni, Roberto ^d   Chen, Weimin M ^a   Zozoulenko, Igor ^a   Fahlman, Mats ^a   Murphy, Peter J ^b   Berggren, Magnus ^a   Crispin, Xavier ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 84892985703     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3824     Document Type: Article

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