A general mechanism for controlling thin film structures in all-conjugated block copolymer:fullerene blends
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 2685
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1039/c4ta03146f
- Title of journal
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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- First page
- 14711
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 35
- ISSN
- 2050-7488
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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10
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper presents the first proposed mechanism for the evolution of nanostructure in block copolymer solar cells. Thin-film diffraction patterns were collected during three days of beamtime awarded on I07 at Diamond. Breaking with convention, microscopically imperfect films were evaluated at multiple length scales to parse the mechanism of failure; this type of evaluation has since been adopted within the field (doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.06.016). Work was supported by Royal Society grant RG110374 and an Imperial College Junior Research Fellowship; the project contributed to the training of two Plastic Electronics DTC students (co-authors Dattani and Vezie).
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- Non-English
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