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Title: The effect of side-chain branch position on the thermal properties of poly(3-alkylthiophenes)

Abstract

Branching closer to the backbone causes tighter packing in the side-chain direction and lower side chain and backbone dynamics.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MI (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1777810
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1570789; OSTI ID: 1599400; OSTI ID: 1774209; OSTI ID: 1985429
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; SC0019361; DGE-1449999
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Polymer Chemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1759-9954
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Cao, Zhiqiang, Galuska, Luke, Qian, Zhiyuan, Zhang, Song, Huang, Lifeng, Prine, Nathaniel, Li, Tianyu, He, Youjun, Hong, Kunlun, and Gu, Xiaodan. The effect of side-chain branch position on the thermal properties of poly(3-alkylthiophenes). United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1039/c9py01026b.
Cao, Zhiqiang, Galuska, Luke, Qian, Zhiyuan, Zhang, Song, Huang, Lifeng, Prine, Nathaniel, Li, Tianyu, He, Youjun, Hong, Kunlun, & Gu, Xiaodan. The effect of side-chain branch position on the thermal properties of poly(3-alkylthiophenes). United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9py01026b
Cao, Zhiqiang, Galuska, Luke, Qian, Zhiyuan, Zhang, Song, Huang, Lifeng, Prine, Nathaniel, Li, Tianyu, He, Youjun, Hong, Kunlun, and Gu, Xiaodan. Mon . "The effect of side-chain branch position on the thermal properties of poly(3-alkylthiophenes)". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9py01026b. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1777810.
@article{osti_1777810,
title = {The effect of side-chain branch position on the thermal properties of poly(3-alkylthiophenes)},
author = {Cao, Zhiqiang and Galuska, Luke and Qian, Zhiyuan and Zhang, Song and Huang, Lifeng and Prine, Nathaniel and Li, Tianyu and He, Youjun and Hong, Kunlun and Gu, Xiaodan},
abstractNote = {Branching closer to the backbone causes tighter packing in the side-chain direction and lower side chain and backbone dynamics.},
doi = {10.1039/c9py01026b},
journal = {Polymer Chemistry},
number = 2,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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