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Beware the nanovoids

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Nanovoids in organic semiconductors can serve as hosts for water inclusions that lead to trapping of electrons and holes.

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Fig. 1: Possible origins of nanovoids.

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Yaron, D.J., Kowalewski, T. Beware the nanovoids. Nat. Mater. 18, 1154–1155 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0502-5

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