Figure 5. Local displacement of the rods within the nematic and spherical droplets.

(a) Trajectory of a fluorescently labeled virus within the spherical droplet, see Supplementary Movie 3 and 4. (b) Trajectory of a fluorescently labeled virus within the tactoid. (c) Mean square displacement of viruses along and perpendicular to the director as well as mean square displacement of the angle between the long axis of virus and tactoid director 〈θ²〉 presented at three different temperatures as one approaches the isotropic state from the nematic state.