Mesoscale molecular network formation in amorphous organic materials

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 10055-10060

  Savoie, Brett M ^a   Kohlstedt, Kevin L ^a   Jackson, Nicholas E ^a   Chen, Lin X ^a,b   De La Cruz, Monica Olvera ^a   Schatz, George C ^a   Marks, Tobin J ^a   Ratner, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge generation; Disordered properties; Soft materials

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; PERYLENE;

AMORPHOUS ORGANIC MATERIAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MATERIALS; MESOSCALE MOLECULAR NETWORK; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84904354502     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1409514111     Document Type: Article

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