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Making weak dopants strong

Nature Materials volume 18, pages 1269–1270 (2019)Cite this article

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Lewis acids are shown to react with water, forming a complex with Brønsted acidity able to effectively dope semiconducting polymers through backbone protonation and internal charge transfer.

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Fig. 1: Molecular p-doping of an organic semiconductor (OSC) via acid–base reaction.

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