Pyrene and diketopyrrolopyrrole-based oligomers synthesized via direct arylation for OSC applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 6765-6775

  Liu, Shi Yong ^a,b   Liu, Wen Qing ^a   Xu, Jing Qi ^a   Fan, Cong Cheng ^a   Fu, Wei Fei ^a   Ling, Jun ^a   Wu, Jun Yong ^b   Shi, Min Min ^a   Jen, Alex K Y ^a,c   Chen, Hong Zheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TAIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

diketopyrrolopyrrole; direct arylation; organic field effect transistors; organic solar cells; pyrene; solution processed small molecules

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BENZENE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MOLECULES; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SOLAR CELLS;

ARYLATIONS; DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLES; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES;

PYRENE;

EID: 84900840739     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500522x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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