Designing intrinsically photostable low band gap polymers : a smart tool combining EPR spectroscopy and DFT calculations
- Submitting institution
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Aston University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 21550709
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1039/c6ta05455b
- Title of journal
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A
- Article number
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- First page
- 15647
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 40
- ISSN
- 2050-7488
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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9
- Research group(s)
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B - Aston Institute of Urban Technology and the Environment (ASTUTE)
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Within a larger international EU collaboration, the Aston group teamed up with French researchers in Clermont-Ferrand and Grenoble to produce a simple method to test the stability of new polymers without the need for rigorous, time-consuming and expensive testing in real devices. The findings concerning the stability of polymers has informed work looking at the degradation of advanced materials in space (e.g. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.78306) and the materials have inspired further work on the design of more stable polymers for photovoltaics through a deeper understanding of the materials within the system (e.g. DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00191C; 10.1557/jmr.2018.141; 10.1016/j.solmat.2017.10.019).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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