Synthesis and characterization of 2,7-bis(pentafluorophenylethynyl)hexafluoroheterofluorenes: new materials with high
Katharine Geramita1, Jennifer McBee, Yuefei Tao
1Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 29, 2008
Abstract:
The synthesis, optical, electrochemical and physical characterization of 2,7-bis(pentafluorophenylethynyl)hexafluoroheterofluorenes is described along with a preliminary evaluation of their performance in photovoltaic applications.
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