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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2019 Dec 18;576(7787):433–436. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1809-8

Fig. 1 |. Spontaneous shape transition of NLCO drops.

Fig. 1 |

a-b, The schematics depict a surfactant-stabilized NLCO sphere and filament (purple) in a background aqueous phase (orange). White lines represent the nematic director. The concept of spatial segregation by oligomer chain length is illustrated. Inset: For simplicity, long-chain/short-chain species (blue/pink solid-curves) represent hexamers and dimers, respectively (grey ellipses represent monomers). The z-axis in (b) is parallel (and coincident) to the central filament axis. c-h, An NLCO drop spontaneously (and reversibly) evolves from sphere to an extended and branched filamentous drop as temperature is reduced. Scale bar is 20 μm.