Fig. 5.
A) Normalized nearest neighbor separations, Dee/Dd, measured from the edges of colloidal plates through the contoured fluid membrane at the closest points between pairs of plates and averaged, where possible, for each vesicle, then divided by the average domain diameter for that vesicle. Error bars reflect ability to resolve edge–edge separations and the impact of domain irregularity. Measurements were made within the limits of a given focal plane with resolution of ∼0.5 μm, producing larger error bars for small vesicles and small domains. Error analysis is detailed in the Supplementary material. Variation in solid area fraction indicated in (A) produces expected differences in the normalized domain separations in the vesicle-encompassing quasi-lattice. B) Edge–edge separations recalculated from prior work (25) on vesicles with two domains per vesicle and a solid area fraction in the range 15–19%.