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Polymers as one-dimensional metals

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Bulk polycrystalline organic conductors do not behave like two- or three-dimensional materials but as one-dimensional metals.

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Figure 1: Chemical structure (left) of PBTTT, schematic of PBTTT molecular packing (centre) and the arrangement of crystalline domains (right).

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