Electrospun polymer fibers for electronic applications

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 906-947

  Luzio, Alessandro ^a   Canesi, Eleonora Valeria ^a   Bertarelli, Chiara ^a,b   Caironi, Mario ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conductive polymers; Conjugated polymers; electrospinning; Organic field effect transistors (OTFTs); Organic semiconductors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894794214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7020906     Document Type: Review

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