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r c
rystal enginee
ring app
roach towa
rd quad
ratic nonlinea
r optics isinfe
rred f
rom an acent
ric coc
rystalline template made of two diffe
rent bi-dimensionaloctupola
r molecules: t
rinit
robenzene (TNB) and t
riphenylene (TP). The
resulting 2-Doctupola
r coc
rystalline lattice is p
roposed as a gene
ric template towa
rd multipola
r c
rystallineenginee
ring studies. X-
ray diff
raction data evidence pa
rallel stacks with alte
rnating ve
rticallyove
rlapping TNB and TP units, leading to a significant
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riented gas model.