(Photo)physical properties of new molecular glasses end-capped with thiophene rings composed of diimide and imine units

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 13070-13086

  Grucela Zajac, Marzena ^a   Bijak, Katarzyna ^a   Kula, Slawomir ^a   Filapek, Michal ^a   Wiacek, Malgorzata ^a   Janeczek, Henryk ^b   Skorka, Lukasz ^c   Gasiorowski, Jacek ^d   Hingerl, Kurt ^d   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^d   Nosidlak, Natalia ^e   Lewinska, Gabriela ^f   Sanetra, Jerzy ^f   Schab Balcerzak, Ewa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^e AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; GLASS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; NAPHTHALENE; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; TIN OXIDES;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; IRREVERSIBLE OXIDATION PROCESS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE);

THIOPHENE;

EID: 84903182626     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp501168b     Document Type: Article

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