Hou, W, Ristic, RI, Srinivasan, K et al. (4 more authors) (2019) Crystal Growth of the Acentric Organic Nonlinear Optical Material Methyl-p-hydroxybenzoate: Morphological Variations in Crystals Grown by Physical Vapor Transport. Crystal Growth & Design, 19 (10). pp. 5505-5515. ISSN 1528-7483
Abstract
Single crystals of the acentric compound methyl-p-hydroxybenzoate were grown by self-nucleation and seeded growth from the vapor phase by the physical vapor transport (PVT) process. In the temperature range of 80–95 °C (nucleation supersaturation 0.97 to 0.88), all crystals were of the polymorphic form as produced by room-temperature solution growth. Self-nucleated crystals varied in macromorphology from columnar to octahedral to skewed octahedral and finally to skewed columnar but retained the same crystal forms indicated by theoretical calculations. Micromorphological studies of growth faces indicated that these variations result from changes in growth mechanisms that influence both the defect structure and perfection of the growing crystal. X-ray topographic studies confirmed that growth under the most ideal conditions, when the dominant faces of the crystals were growing by a dislocation induced Burton, Cabrera, and Frank mechanism, yielded the structurally most perfect crystals. Preliminary studies of seeded growth were performed as a prelude to using PVT for the growth of larger crystals. The seeded growth followed a different pattern of supersaturation dependence. All crystals showed the same asymmetric growth along the polar axis that has come to be regarded as characteristic of these highly polar acentric materials when grown from solution.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 American Chemical Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2020 14:13 |
Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2020 14:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
Identification Number: | 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01728 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:158613 |