Effect of molecular weight on morphology and photovoltaic properties in P3HT:PCBM solar cells
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The authors would like to acknowledge the Interreg Euregio-Maas-Rijn project 'ORGANEXT' and the IWT-SBO-project Polyspec for funding. They are also grateful for financial support by the Research Programme of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) (project G.0415.14N and M.ERA-NET project RADESOL).
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Conducting polymers and applications · Polymer crystallization and properties
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