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Molecules as bipolar conductors

Nature Materials volume 2, pages 360–361 (2003)Cite this article

Composite films of conducting polymers and fullerenes are attractive for making optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells. A new approach mixes the two components at the molecular level.

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Figure 1: Photoinduced charge transfer in a polymeric material composed of a conjugated moiety with covalently linked fullerene-based units3.

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