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Title: Improvement of Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer Solar Cells by Rational Molecular Optimization of Organic Molecule Acceptors

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [4];  [3]; ORCiD logo [7]
  1. CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China, School of Chemical Science University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
  2. CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China, Department of Chemistry School of Science Beijing JiaoTong University Beijing 100044 China
  3. Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab North Carolina State University Raleigh NC 27695 USA
  4. CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
  5. Advanced Light Source Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 USA
  6. Department of Chemistry School of Science Beijing JiaoTong University Beijing 100044 China
  7. CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China, School of Chemical Science University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China, Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials College of Chemistry Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Soochow University Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 China
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1464423
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE‐AC02‐05CH11231
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Energy Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Advanced Energy Materials Journal Volume: 8 Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

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Li, Xiaojun, Yao, Jia, Angunawela, Indunil, Sun, Chenkai, Xue, Lingwei, Liebman‐Pelaez, Alexander, Zhu, Chenhui, Yang, Chunhe, Zhang, Zhi‐Guo, Ade, Harald, and Li, Yongfang. Improvement of Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer Solar Cells by Rational Molecular Optimization of Organic Molecule Acceptors. Germany: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201800815.
Li, Xiaojun, Yao, Jia, Angunawela, Indunil, Sun, Chenkai, Xue, Lingwei, Liebman‐Pelaez, Alexander, Zhu, Chenhui, Yang, Chunhe, Zhang, Zhi‐Guo, Ade, Harald, & Li, Yongfang. Improvement of Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer Solar Cells by Rational Molecular Optimization of Organic Molecule Acceptors. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201800815
Li, Xiaojun, Yao, Jia, Angunawela, Indunil, Sun, Chenkai, Xue, Lingwei, Liebman‐Pelaez, Alexander, Zhu, Chenhui, Yang, Chunhe, Zhang, Zhi‐Guo, Ade, Harald, and Li, Yongfang. Thu . "Improvement of Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer Solar Cells by Rational Molecular Optimization of Organic Molecule Acceptors". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201800815.
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title = {Improvement of Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer Solar Cells by Rational Molecular Optimization of Organic Molecule Acceptors},
author = {Li, Xiaojun and Yao, Jia and Angunawela, Indunil and Sun, Chenkai and Xue, Lingwei and Liebman‐Pelaez, Alexander and Zhu, Chenhui and Yang, Chunhe and Zhang, Zhi‐Guo and Ade, Harald and Li, Yongfang},
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doi = {10.1002/aenm.201800815},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 23,
volume = 8,
place = {Germany},
year = {2018},
month = {6}
}

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