First-principles study of the effect of functional groups on polyaniline backbone

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, X P ^a,b   Jiang, J K ^b   Liang, Q H ^b   Yang, N ^b   Ye, H Y ^c   Cai, M ^b   Shen, L ^b   Yang, D G ^b   Ren, T L ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84947573977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16907     Document Type: Article

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