Quaterthiophene Benzobisazole Copolymers for Photovoltaic Cells: Effect of Heteroatom Placement and Substitution on the Optical and Electronic Properties
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Quaterthiophene Benzobisazole Copolymers for Photovoltaic Cells: Effect of Heteroatom Placement and Substitution on the Optical and Electronic Properties Achala Bhuwalka, Jared F. Mike, Meng He, Jeremy J. Intemann, Toby Nelson, Monique D. Ewan, Robert A. Roggers, Zhiqun Lin, and Malika Jeffries-EL* Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa 50011, United States Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States The Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Ministry of Education, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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