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†Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology, Chungnam
National University, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea
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was supported by the Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting
Solar Energy, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences,
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