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Synchrotron X-ray Microdiffraction and Fluorescence Imaging of Mineral and Rock Samples
Published on: June 19, 2018
Two-dimensional confinement for generating thin single crystals for applications in time-resolved electron
Hyein Hwang1,2, Vandana Tiwari3, Hong-Guang Duan4
1Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 6, 20146, Hamburg, Germany.
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.
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