Enhancing Indacenodithiophene Acceptor Crystallinity via Substituent Manipulation Increases Organic Solar Cell Efficiency

Thomas J. Aldrich; Steven M. Swick; Ferdinand S. Melkonyan; Tobin J. Marks

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04616

Enhancing Indacenodithiophene Acceptor Crystallinity via Substituent Manipulation Increases Organic Solar Cell Efficiency

Thomas J. Aldrich, Steven M. Swick, Ferdinand S. Melkonyan^*, Tobin J. Marks

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	10294-10298
Number of pages	5
Journal	Chemistry of Materials
Volume	29
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04616
State	Published - Dec 26 2017

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