Effect of backbone regioregularity on the structure and orientation of a donor-acceptor semiconducting copolymer

Macromolecules

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1403-1410

  Perez, Louis A ^a,b   Zalar, Peter ^b   Ying, Lei ^b,d   Schmidt, Kristin ^c   Toney, Michael F ^c   Nguyen, Thuc Quyen ^b   Bazan, Guillermo C ^a,b   Kramer, Edward J ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84894674552     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma4019679     Document Type: Article

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