Original Article
  • Study on the Morphologies and Electrical Properties in Polymer Blend Thin-Films Based on Two Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Conjugated Polymers with Different Regio-regularities

  • Ganghoon Jeong*§, Nann Aye Mya Mya Phu*§, Rae-Su Park**, Jeong Woo Yun***, Yeongun Ko*†, Mincheol Chang*†

  • * Department of Polymer Engineering, Graduate School, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
    ** Department of Chemical Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea
    *** School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea

  • 서로 다른 위치 규칙성을 가지는 두 개의 Poly(3-hexylthiophene) 공액 고분자를 기반으로 한 고분자 복합 박막의 구조와 전기적 특성에 대한 연구

  • 정강훈*§ · Nann Aye Mya Mya Phu*§ · 박래수** · 윤정우*** · 고영운*† · 장민철*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Yeongun Ko*, Mincheol Chang*

  • Department of Polymer Engineering, Graduate School, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea

  • E-mail: yeongunko@jnu.ac.kr, mchang35@jnu.ac.kr