Surface-Engineered Graphene Quantum Dots Incorporated into Polymer Layers for High Performance Organic Photovoltaics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kim, Jung Kyu ^a,f   Kim, Sang Jin ^b,c   Park, Myung Jin ^b   Bae, Sukang ^c   Cho, Sung Pyo ^b   Du, Qing Guo ^d   Wang, Dong Hwan ^e   Park, Jong Hyeok ^f   Hong, Byung Hee ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^e Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^f Yonsei University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84942134336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14276     Document Type: Article

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