- authors
- Hyein Hwang, Vandana Tiwari, Hong-Guang Duan, Simon F. Bittmann, Friedjof Tellkamp, Ajay Jha and R. J. Dwayne Miller
- date published
- Aug. 3, 2022
- journal
- Chemical Communications
- publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- volume, number
- 58
- pages
- 9774-9777
- doi
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC02468C
- abstract
Thin single organic crystals (≤1 μm) with large area (≥100 × 100 μm2) are desirable to explore photoinduced processes using ultrafast spectroscopy and electron-diffraction. Here, we present a general method based on spatial confinement to grow such crystals using the prototypical proton transfer system, 1,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone, as an example, and provide the protocol for optically characterizing structural dynamics to enable proper assignments using diffraction methods.