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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

Extended Data Fig. 3 |. Macroscopic interfacial tension of NLCO pendant drops as function of temperature and NLCO oligomerization time.

Extended Data Fig. 3 |

The NLCO drop has homeotropic anchoring at the interface in an aqueous solution consisting of 0.1 wt% SDS. The interfacial tension γ decreases with decreasing temperature and increasing NLCO mean oligomer chain length 〈ℓ〉 (consult Fig. 2f in the main text for relation between oligomerization processing time and 〈ℓ〉). Inset: Optical image of a NLCO pendant drop hanging from a flat tip syringe needle (1.26 mm OD) in a 0.1 wt% SDS aqueous solution.