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Propeller vs Quasi-Planar 6-Cantilever Small Molecular Platforms with Extremely Two-Dimensional Conjugated Extension

Zheng Xu1, Shitong Li1, Fangfang Huang1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, The Centre of Nanoscale Science and Technology and Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center (RECAST), Tianjin Key Laboratory of functional polymer materials, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 20, 2023
PubMed

Keywords:
6-Cantilever MoleculeConfiguration TuningOrganic SemiconductorOrganic Solar CellsTwo-Dimensional Conjugation

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