Narrow bandgap polymers: poly-4-dicyanomethylene-4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b;3,4-b′]dithiophene (PCDM)
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 18,p. 1268-1270
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39910001268
Abstract
An electroactive polymer with a bandgap of ≈0.8 eV has been obtained from the monomer 4-dicyanomethylene-4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b;3,4-b′]dithiophene.Keywords
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