Molecularly smooth single-crystalline films of thiophene-phenylene co-oligomers grown at the gas-liquid interface

Crystal Growth and Design

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1726-1737

  Postnikov, Valery A ^a   Odarchenko, Yaroslav I ^b   Iovlev, Alexander V ^c   Bruevich, Vladimir V ^c   Pereverzev, Alexander Yu ^d   Kudryashova, Ludmila G ^c   Sobornov, Vladimir V ^c   Vidal, Loïc ^b   Chernyshov, Dmitry ^e   Luponosov, Yuriy N ^f   Borshchev, Oleg V ^f   Surin, Nikolay M ^f   Ponomarenko, Sergei A ^c,f   Ivanov, Dimitri A ^b,c   Paraschuk, Dmitry Yu ^c  

^a DONBAS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f ENIKOLOPOV INSTITUTE OF SYNTHETIC POLYMER MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIQUIDS; OLIGOMERS; SOLVENTS; THIOPHENE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CONJUGATED OLIGOMER; CRYSTAL GROWTH TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLIZATION MECHANISMS; GAS-LIQUID INTERFACE; NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC CRYSTALS; ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT DEVICES; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE FILM;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 84897561844     PISSN: 15287483     EISSN: 15287505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cg401876a     Document Type: Article

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