Aggregation-induced Emission-active Hyperbranched Poly(tetrahydro-pyrimidine)s Synthesized from Multicomponent Tandem Polymerization
- Corresponding author: Rongrong Hu, msrrhu@scut.edu.cn Ben Zhong Tang, tangbenz@ust.hk
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Yuzhang Huang, Ping Chen, Bo Wei, Rongrong Hu, Ben Zhong Tang. Aggregation-induced Emission-active Hyperbranched Poly(tetrahydro-pyrimidine)s Synthesized from Multicomponent Tandem Polymerization[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science,
;2019, 37(4): 428-436.
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10.1007/s10118-019-2230-3
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