Watching two conjugated polymer chains breaking each other when colliding in solution

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Tian, Yuxi ^a   Kuzimenkova, Marina V ^a   Xie, Mingyi ^a   Meyer, Matthias ^a   Larsson, Per Olof ^a   Scheblykin, Ivan G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CHAINS; DEGRADATION; MOLECULES;

CONJUGATED BACKBONES; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; MECHANICAL BENDING; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; SOLUTION-PROCESSING;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84925244179     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2014.91     Document Type: Article

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