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Title: Influence of Polymer Aggregation and Liquid Immiscibility on Morphology Tuning by Varying Composition in PffBT4T‐2DT/Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic ElectronicsImperial College London London W12 0BZ UK
  2. Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic ElectronicsImperial College London London SW7 2AZ UK
  3. Physical Sciences and Engineering DivisionKAUST Solar Center (KSC)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955‐6900 Saudi Arabia
  4. Material Measurement LaboratoryNational Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg MD 20899 USA
  5. Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic ElectronicsImperial College London London W12 0BZ UK, SPECIFICCollege of EngineeringSwansea University Bay Campus SA1 8EN Swansea UK
  6. Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic ElectronicsImperial College London London W12 0BZ UK, Physical Sciences and Engineering DivisionKAUST Solar Center (KSC)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955‐6900 Saudi Arabia
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1595868
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Journal Name:
Advanced Energy Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Advanced Energy Materials Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
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Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

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Hamid, Zeinab, Wadsworth, Andrew, Rezasoltani, Elham, Holliday, Sarah, Azzouzi, Mohammed, Neophytou, Marios, Guilbert, Anne A. Y., Dong, Yifan, Little, Mark S., Mukherjee, Subhrangsu, Herzing, Andrew A., Bristow, Helen, Kline, R. Joseph, DeLongchamp, Dean M., Bakulin, Artem A., Durrant, James R., Nelson, Jenny, and McCulloch, Iain. Influence of Polymer Aggregation and Liquid Immiscibility on Morphology Tuning by Varying Composition in PffBT4T‐2DT/Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells. Germany: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201903248.
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Hamid, Zeinab, Wadsworth, Andrew, Rezasoltani, Elham, Holliday, Sarah, Azzouzi, Mohammed, Neophytou, Marios, Guilbert, Anne A. Y., Dong, Yifan, Little, Mark S., Mukherjee, Subhrangsu, Herzing, Andrew A., Bristow, Helen, Kline, R. Joseph, DeLongchamp, Dean M., Bakulin, Artem A., Durrant, James R., Nelson, Jenny, & McCulloch, Iain. Influence of Polymer Aggregation and Liquid Immiscibility on Morphology Tuning by Varying Composition in PffBT4T‐2DT/Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells. Germany. doi:10.1002/aenm.201903248.
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Hamid, Zeinab, Wadsworth, Andrew, Rezasoltani, Elham, Holliday, Sarah, Azzouzi, Mohammed, Neophytou, Marios, Guilbert, Anne A. Y., Dong, Yifan, Little, Mark S., Mukherjee, Subhrangsu, Herzing, Andrew A., Bristow, Helen, Kline, R. Joseph, DeLongchamp, Dean M., Bakulin, Artem A., Durrant, James R., Nelson, Jenny, and McCulloch, Iain. Wed . "Influence of Polymer Aggregation and Liquid Immiscibility on Morphology Tuning by Varying Composition in PffBT4T‐2DT/Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells". Germany. doi:10.1002/aenm.201903248.
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@article{osti_1595868,
title = {Influence of Polymer Aggregation and Liquid Immiscibility on Morphology Tuning by Varying Composition in PffBT4T‐2DT/Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells},
author = {Hamid, Zeinab and Wadsworth, Andrew and Rezasoltani, Elham and Holliday, Sarah and Azzouzi, Mohammed and Neophytou, Marios and Guilbert, Anne A. Y. and Dong, Yifan and Little, Mark S. and Mukherjee, Subhrangsu and Herzing, Andrew A. and Bristow, Helen and Kline, R. Joseph and DeLongchamp, Dean M. and Bakulin, Artem A. and Durrant, James R. and Nelson, Jenny and McCulloch, Iain},
abstractNote = {},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201903248},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 8,
volume = 10,
place = {Germany},
year = {2020},
month = {1}
}
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