Fig. S9.

BPII crystal nucleation and growth from an isotropic phase: cooling of a 12-μm-thick hybrid cell. Cross-polarized mode reflected light microscope images for 12-μm-thick hybrid cell during cooling from an isotropic phase at 42.8 °C for three cooling schemes: (A) a sudden temperature decrease to 40.8 °C; (B) an initial temperature decrease of 1 °C, followed by an additional one after 60 s; and (C) a slow stepwise cooling of 0.4 °C every 30 s. The reported temperature values are for the Si substrate.