Non-fullerene Acceptors with a Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione (TPD) Core for Efficient Organic Solar Cells
- Corresponding author: Min-Min Shi, minminshi@zju.edu.cn Hong-Zheng Chen, hzchen@zju.edu.cn
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Shi-Zhe Geng, Wei-Tao Yang, Jian Gao, Shui-Xing Li, Min-Min Shi, Tsz-Ki Lau, Xin-Hui Lu, Chang-Zhi Li, Hong-Zheng Chen. Non-fullerene Acceptors with a Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione (TPD) Core for Efficient Organic Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science,
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