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Preface. <p>Contributors. </p> <p>1 Crystal Engineering Organic Semiconductors (<i>Joseph C. Sumrak, Anatoliy N. Sokolov, and Leonard R. MacGillivray</i>).</p> <p>2 Conjugated Block Copolymers and Cooligomers (<i>Yongye Liang and Luping Yu</i>).</p> <p>3 Charge Transports and Its Modeling in Liquid Crystals (<i>Jun-ichi Hanna and Akira Ohno</i>).</p> <p>4 Self-Organized Discotic Liquid Crystals as Novel Organic Semiconductors (<i>Manoj Mathew and Quan Li</i>).</p> <p>5 Self-Organized Semiconducting Smectic Liquid Crystals (<i>Ji Ma and Quan Li</i>).</p> <p>6 Self-Assembling of Carbon Nanotubes (<i>Liming Dai</i>).</p> <p>7 Self-Organized Fullerene Based Organic Semiconductors (<i>Li-Mei Jin and Quan Li</i>).</p> <p>8 High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Using Self-Organized Materials (<i>Paul A. Lane</i>).</p> <p>9 Selective Molecular Assembly for Bottom-Up Fabrication of Organic Thin-Film Transistors (<i>Takeo Minari, Masataka Kano, and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi</i>).</p> <p>Index. </p>

<b>Quan Li, PhD,</b> is Director of Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Liquid Crystal Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program of Kent State University, where he has directed research projects supported by the National Science Foundation and other U.S. government agencies and several companies. He received his PhD in organic chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, where he was promoted to a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and MedicinalChemistry in 1998.

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