Development and Structure/Property Relationship of New Electron Accepting Polymers Based on Thieno[2′,3′:4,5]pyrido[2,3-g]thieno[3,2-c]quinoline-4,10-dione for All-Polymer Solar Cells

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 5941-5948

  Jung, In Hwan ^a,c   Zhao, Donglin ^a   Jang, Jaeyoung ^a,d   Chen, Wei ^b   Landry, Erik S ^b   Lu, Luyao ^a   Talapin, Dmitri V ^a,b   Yu, Luping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology   (South Korea)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; MONOMERS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER FILMS;

1-CHLORONAPHTHALENE; ALL-POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON ACCEPTING POLYMERS; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; PERYLENEDIIMIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; STRUCTURE/PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84941101416     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01928     Document Type: Article

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