Low-Vapor-Pressure Solvent Additives Function as Polymer Swelling Agents in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics

Fontana, Matthew T.; Kang, Hyeyeon; Yee, Patrick Y.; Fan, Zongwu; Hawks, Steven A.; Schelhas, Laura T.; Subramaniyan, Selvam; Hwang, Ye -Jin; Jenekhe, Samson A.; Tolbert, Sarah H.; Schwartz, Benjamin J.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04192

Title: Low-Vapor-Pressure Solvent Additives Function as Polymer Swelling Agents in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics

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Fontana, Matthew T. ^[1]; Kang, Hyeyeon ^[1]; Yee, Patrick Y. ^[1]; Fan, Zongwu ^[1]; Hawks, Steven A. ^[2];

^[3]; Subramaniyan, Selvam ^[4]; Hwang, Ye -Jin ^[5]; Jenekhe, Samson A. ^[4];

^[1];

^[1]

Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Inha Univ., Incheon (South Korea)

Publication Date:: Mon Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1469065

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1572612

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-769839
Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; 1608957; 1510353; AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 29; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Solvent Additives; Swelling Agents; Polymer Swelling; 1,8-diiodooctane; Sequential-Processing; Energy - Solar

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                    Fontana, Matthew T., Kang, Hyeyeon, Yee, Patrick Y., Fan, Zongwu, Hawks, Steven A., Schelhas, Laura T., Subramaniyan, Selvam, Hwang, Ye -Jin, Jenekhe, Samson A., Tolbert, Sarah H., and Schwartz, Benjamin J. Low-Vapor-Pressure Solvent Additives Function as Polymer Swelling Agents in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
Web.  doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04192.

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                    Fontana, Matthew T., Kang, Hyeyeon, Yee, Patrick Y., Fan, Zongwu, Hawks, Steven A., Schelhas, Laura T., Subramaniyan, Selvam, Hwang, Ye -Jin, Jenekhe, Samson A., Tolbert, Sarah H., & Schwartz, Benjamin J. Low-Vapor-Pressure Solvent Additives Function as Polymer Swelling Agents in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04192

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                    Fontana, Matthew T., Kang, Hyeyeon, Yee, Patrick Y., Fan, Zongwu, Hawks, Steven A., Schelhas, Laura T., Subramaniyan, Selvam, Hwang, Ye -Jin, Jenekhe, Samson A., Tolbert, Sarah H., and Schwartz, Benjamin J. Mon .  
"Low-Vapor-Pressure Solvent Additives Function as Polymer Swelling Agents in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04192.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1469065.

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@article{osti_1469065,

  title        = {Low-Vapor-Pressure Solvent Additives Function as Polymer Swelling Agents in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics},

  author       = {Fontana, Matthew T. and Kang, Hyeyeon and Yee, Patrick Y. and Fan, Zongwu and Hawks, Steven A. and Schelhas, Laura T. and Subramaniyan, Selvam and Hwang, Ye -Jin and Jenekhe, Samson A. and Tolbert, Sarah H. and Schwartz, Benjamin J.},

  abstractNote = {},

  doi          = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04192},

  journal      = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. C},

  number       = 29,

  volume       = 122,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018},

  month        = {Mon Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018}

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