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First examples of room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystals exhibiting ambipolar charge carrier mobilities

Monika Gupta1, Abhinand Krishna Km1, Simran Sony1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT-Ropar) Bara Phool, Punjab-140001, India. monika.gupta@iitrpr.ac.in.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
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