Royal Society of Chemistry, CrystEngComm, 36(22), p. 5954-5960, 2020
DOI: 10.1039/d0ce00800a
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An underutilized, but highly advantageous, method of growing functional-single-crystals, the gel-growth technique, is highlighted. Large nonlinear optical crystals, BCHT, were grown and their dehydration phase-transformation to β-BTC were studied.