Alkoxyphenylthiophene linked benzodithiophene based medium band gap polymers for organic photovoltaics: Efficiency improvement upon methanol treatment depends on the planarity of backbone

Macromolecules

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7060-7069

  Kranthiraja, Kakaraparthi ^a   Gunasekar, Kumarasamy ^a   Cho, Woosum ^a   Song, Myungkwan ^b   Park, Young Geun ^c   Lee, Jin Yong ^c   Shin, Yurim ^d   Kang, In Nam ^d   Kim, Ajeong ^e   Kim, Hyunjung ^e   Kim, Bongsoo ^f   Jin, Sung Ho ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Material Science   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^d The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^e Sogang University   (South Korea)

^f Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND-GAP POLYMERS; BENZODITHIOPHENE; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLANARITY;

EID: 84908263363     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma5010875     Document Type: Article

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