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The growth of organic single crystals of naphthalene (C10H8) and anthracene (С14H10) at the liquid‒air interface from a mixture of solvents has been investigated. The growth technique used in the study makes it possible to obtain single-crystal sheets up to 10 mm in size for 24 h. The surface morphology and structure of the crystals have been analyzed by optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. C10H8 and С14H10 single crystals grow coplanarly along the (001) plane. A thermodynamic model of the flat-crystal nucleus formation at the liquid‒air interface, based on the analysis of the change in the free Gibbs energy, is considered.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Postnikov, S.V. Chertopalov, 2015, published in Kristallografiya, 2015, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 651–658.
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Postnikov, V.A., Chertopalov, S.V. Growth of large naphthalene and anthracene single-crystal sheets at the liquid–air interface. Crystallogr. Rep. 60, 594–600 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377451503013X
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