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This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Science Research in a Priority Area ‘Super-Hierarchical Structures’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology, Japan.
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Fukumoto, H., Omori, Y. & Yamamoto, T. Effects of solvent and temperature on regioregularity of poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) prepared by chemical oxidative polymerization. Polym J 45, 462–465 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/pj.2012.152
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