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. 2022 Jun 2;13:3076. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30801-x

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Fig. 1 — a Chemical structure of a C16-IDTBT monomer showing its fused donor molecular unit (IDT) and its acceptor molecular unit (BT). b Height topography of a C16-IDTBT spin-coated thin film. c Corresponding phase contrast image of the C16-IDTBT thin film on the scale of hundreds of nanometers. d Phase contrast image on the scale of tens of nanometers demonstrating regions of order 10–15 nm across and regions of unclear ordering within tens of nanometers from the ordered regions. e Line scan along the dashed straight lines of (d) in the ordered region. f Line scan along the dashed straight line of (d) in the region of unclear order. The distance between the parallel polymer backbone filaments of (d) is ~1.6 nm and is smaller than that expected for in-plane sidechain interdigitation.