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      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2011.27.1.art00039_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20110101)2011:2L.561;1-</article-id>
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        <article-title>Effect of &#x3C9;-hydroxyl Group of Side Chains on Phase Transition Behavior and Charge Transport Properties in Terthiophene Liquid Crystals</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Fukuda</surname>
            <given-names>Toyohiro</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Hanna</surname>
            <given-names>Jun-ichi</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2011</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2011</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>561</fpage>
      <lpage>563</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2011</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>We have synthesized liquid crystalline terthiophene (TTP) derivatives having hydroxyl groups in &#x3C9;-position of side chains, i.e., 5-hexyl-5&#x2019;&#x2019;-(6-hydroxyhexyl) terthiophene (6-TTP-6ol) and 5, 5&#x2019;&#x2019;-bis (6-hydroxyhexyl) terthiophene (6-TTP-6diol), and characterized
 their liquid crystallinity by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), polarized optical microscopic observation (POM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement. And charge carrier transport properties by time-of-flight (TOF) measurement. These hole mobilities determined by TOF had not been
 changed much despite relatively the large dipole of hydroxyl group of 1.8-2.2D, compared with a non-hydroxyl derivative and their values are 10<sup>&#x2212;3</sup>-10<sup>&#x2212;2</sup>cm<sup>2</sup>V<sup>&#x2212;1</sup>s<sup>&#x2212;1</sup>. This fact indicates that the charge carrier mobility
 is not affected by polar groups, if it is substituted at the far &#x2212;end position from the TTP core responsible for carrier transport, indicating a possible molecular design of a functionalized liquid crystalline organic semiconductor with polar groups without decreasing the mobility.</p>
      </abstract>
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