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A miniemulsion process has been used to create layers of conjugated semiconducting polymers from aqueous suspensions. Layers of particles with sizes ranging between 70 and 250 nm can be formed and annealing results in coalescing of the particles into large homogeneous domains (see Figure for a photoluminescence image of a Me-LPPP layer).