Works matching IS 1616301X AND DT 2003 AND VI 13 AND IP 4

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    Stabilized Blue Emission from Polyfluorene-Based Light-Emitting Diodes: Elimination of Fluorenone Defects This work was partially supported by the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials at UCSB and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the MURI Center (“Polymeric Smart Skins”), Charles Lee, Program Officer. Synthesis of the CF<sub>3</sub>OXD and related tetrahedrally coordinated molecules was supported by a grant to G. Bazan from DuPont Displays. The XPS results were obtained by using the MRL (Material Research Laboratory at UCSB) Central Facilities supported by the National Science Foundation under DMR 96-32716. We thank Prof. W. R. Salaneck of Linköping University (Sweden) for important comments. X. Gong is grateful to Dr. Gang Yu of Dupont Display for valuable discussions. Dr. Tom Mates (UCSB-MRL) and Dr. Jiang Wang (Dupont Displays) are gratefully acknowledged for assistance in various aspects of the exper

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 325, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304279
    By:
    • X. Gong;
    • P.K. Iyer;
    • D. Moses;
    • G.C. Bazan;
    • A.J. Heeger;
    • S.S. Xiao
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    Controlling the Color of Cholesteric Liquid-Crystalline Films by Photoirradiation of a Chiroptical Molecular Switch Used as Dopant (Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven and especially Prof. D. J. Broer are gratefully acknowledged for allowing us to perform most of the presented research at their facilities and for supplying us with the cholesteric acrylate mixture. Merck, Darmstadt is acknowledged for supplying us with the nematic material E7.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 319, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304313
    By:
    • R.A. van Delden;
    • M.B. van Gelder;
    • N.P.M. Huck
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    Fast and High-Contrast Electro-optical Switching of Liquid-Crystalline Physical Gels: Formation of Oriented Microphase-Separated Structures (Financial support of a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas of “Dynamic Control of Strongly Correlated Soft Materials” (No. 413/13031009) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is gratefully acknowledged. One of the authors (N. M.) is thankful for financial support of the Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for Young Scientists.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 313, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304275
    By:
    • N. Mizoshita;
    • K. Hanabusa
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    A Donor–Acceptor Polymer with a Peculiar Negative-Charge-“Trapping” Characteristic (We are grateful to Prof. Chiara Castiglioni and Prof. Giuseppe Zerbi for their help in IR spectra interpretation and for stimulating discussions, and to Dr. S. Schiavon and Dr. G. Zotti for their contribution in performing and understanding the electrochemical measurements. This work was supported by CNR within the framework of the Progetto Finalizzato “Materiali Speciali per Tecnologie Avanzate II” and by Italian Ministry of Scientific Research (MURST 2000).)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 307, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304250
    By:
    • G. Casalbore-Miceli;
    • M.C. Gallazzi;
    • S. Zecchin;
    • N. Camaioni;
    • A. Geri;
    • C. Bertarelli
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    Infiltrating Semiconducting Polymers into Self-Assembled Mesoporous Titania Films for Photovoltaic Applications (We acknowledge the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund and the U.S. National Science Foundation (DMR-96-34396 and NSF CHE 0098240) for support of this research. This work was also partially supported by the NSF-MRSEC program through the Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA) under DMR 9808677. We thank Dr. Ekaterina Kadnikova for making GPC measurements and Ann Marshall for HR SEM assistance.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 301, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304361
    By:
    • K.M. Coakley;
    • Y. Liu;
    • M.D. McGehee;
    • K.L. Frindell;
    • G.D. Stucky
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    Factors Affecting the Stability of CdTe/CdS Solar Cells Deduced from Stress Tests at Elevated Temperature (This work was supported in part by the US DOE, via the National Renewable Energy Laboratories’ Thin-Film Photovoltaics Partnership Program. KDD and IVF also thank the Feinberg Graduate School (Weizmann Inst.) for support. We acknowledge D. Rose (FS) and C. Ferekides (USF) for supplying samples, and thank C. Cyterman (Technion, Haifa) and S. Asher (NREL) for SIMS analysis, L. Burstein (Tel-Aviv University) for AES measurements, and H. Cohen and Y. Feldman (Weizmann Inst.) for XPS measurements. We thank R. Tenne (Weizmann Inst.) for invaluable help with the PL measurements, and L. Kronik (Univ. of Minnesota) for enlightening discussions. DC holds the Schaefer Chair in Energy Research.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 289, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304259
    By:
    • I. Visoly-Fisher;
    • K.D. Dobson;
    • J. Nair;
    • E. Bezalel;
    • G. Hodes
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    Stabilization of Isolated Hydrous Amorphous and Tetragonal Zirconia Nanoparticles Through the Formation of a Passivating Alumina Shell (We thank K. Sheran for assistance in collecting TGA data. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMR-9807190 and by the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-99-1-0568. SHT is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 281, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304267
    By:
    • B.L. Kirsch
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    Reactive Ion Etching of Cylindrical Polyferrocenylsilane Block Copolymer Micelles: Fabrication of Ceramic Nanolines on Semiconducting Substrates (We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of this research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (MO 682/3-1). In addition, L. C. thanks the Ontario Government for an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1999--2002). I. M. thanks the University of Toronto for a McLean Fellowship (1997--2003), the Ontario Government for a PREA Award (1999--2003), and the Canadian Government for a Canada Research Chair (2001). M. A. W. thanks the Canada Council for a Killam Fellowship. The authors also thank B. Tartsch for helpful discussions.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 271, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304261
    By:
    • L. Cao;
    • J.A. Massey;
    • M.A. Winnik;
    • I. Manners;
    • S. Riethmüller;
    • F. Banhart;
    • J.P. Spatz
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    Surface Functionalization of Thermoplastic Polymers for the Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices by Photoinitiated Grafting (This work was supported by the Office of Nonproliferation Research and Engineering of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098 as part of a close collaboration with Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, and, in part, by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health (GM-48364). Support of T. R. by the Austrian Science Fund is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank Dr. Craig R. Tewell for his help in the determination of the UV-emission spectrum, Senol Mutlu for depositing Parylene C on chips, as well as Ticona and Bayer AG for samples of their polymers.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 264, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304229
    By:
    • T. Rohr;
    • D.F. Ogletree;
    • F. Svec;
    • J.M.J. Fréchet
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    Patterning Spherical Surfaces at the Two-Hundred-Nanometer Scale Using Soft Lithography (The authors gratefully acknowledge helpful discussions with Hongkai Wu, J. Christopher Love and Daniel Wolfe. This research was sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and by DARPA, and used MRSEC shared facilities funded by the NSF under DMR9809363. We thank Steve Shepard and Yuanzhang Lu for their technical assistance.)

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    Advanced Functional Materials, 2003, v. 13, n. 4, p. 259, doi. 10.1002/adfm.200304255
    By:
    • K.E. Paul;
    • M. Prentiss
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