Structure formation in P3HT/F8TBT blends

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1725-1736

  Sepe, Alessandro ^a   Rong, Zhuxia ^a   Sommer, Michael ^b   Vaynzof, Yana ^a   Sheng, Xiaoyuan ^a   Müller Buschbaum, Peter ^c   Smilgies, Detlef M ^d   Tan, Zhi Kuang ^a   Yang, Le ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a   Steiner, Ullrich ^a   Hüttner, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; ALL-POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE MORPHOLOGIES; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; FILM-SUBSTRATE INTERFACES; NANOSTRUCTURE FORMATION; P3HT CRYSTALLIZATIONS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FILM; GRAIN BOUNDARY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POLYMER; SOLAR POWER; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84898809277     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3ee44125c     Document Type: Article

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