Ab initio treatment of disorder effects in amorphous organic materials: Toward parameter free materials simulation

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3720-3725

  Friederich, Pascal ^a   Symalla, Franz ^a   Meded, Velimir ^a   Neumann, Tobias ^a   Wenzel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 84907168865     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct500418f     Document Type: Article

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