A general method for cultivating single crystals from melt microdroplets.

The cultivation of single crystals from solution is usually a time-consuming trial-and-error process. Here, we report a general strategy for rapidly cultivating single crystals from melt microdroplets within tens of minutes at the microgram scale. This strategy was successfully applied to the important polymorphic system griseofulvin to provide missing structural information of Form III, for which single crystals could not be cultivated from solution, as well as to twenty clinical drugs to verify its generality.