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Strong absorption in stiff polymers

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Greater rigidity of conjugated polymer backbones increases their light-harvesting ability, making them better performers in solar-cell applications.

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Figure 1: Plot of experimentally measured optical extinction coefficients for conjugated polymers with varying persistence lengths (increasing from the light blue to the dark blue curve).

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