Unit	Case #1	Case #2	Case #3	Case #4
Geometrical parameters
$N_{\text{P}}$	Number of parallelepipeds per layer		7	7	7	7
$r$	Gatio b/a		0.55	0.55	0.5	0.5
${\gamma }_{\text{P}}$	Angle between a and b	°	57	57	40	40
${\beta }_{\text{P}}$	angle between a and c	°	52.5	52.5	60	60
${\alpha }_{\text{P}}$	Angle between b and c	°	52.5	52.5	72	72
$t$	Thickness of the parallelepipeds in the direction perpendicular to the plane formed by a and b	nm	9	9	9	9
$v$	Thickness of the empty space between two parallelepipeds in the direction perpendicular to the plane formed by a and b	nm	0	0	2.6	3.9
$R_{\text{b}}$	Radius of the bottom circle	nm	1.1	1.1	4.3	3.3
$R_{\text{m}}$	Radius of the middle circle	nm	1.1	1.1	8.7	13
$R_{\text{t}}$	Radius of the top circle	nm	1.1	1.1	4.3	3.3
$L_{\text{b}}$	Height of bottom truncated cone	nm	200	200	43	130
$L_{\text{t}}$	Height of top truncated cone	nm	200	200	69	390
$d_{\text{b}}$	Diagonal of the basis bottom parallelogram	nm	12.4	12.4	35	52
$d_{\text{m}}$	Diagonal of the basis middle parallelogram	nm	74.5	74.5	43	65
$d_{\text{t}}$	Diagonal of the basis top parallelogram	nm	12.4	12.4	26	39
${\beta }_{\text{b}}$	Angle between the z-axis and the direction of the basis bottom parallelogram	°	90	52.5	120	60
${\beta }_{\text{m}}$	Angle between the z-axis and the direction of the basis middle parallelogram	°	90	52.5	90	45
${\beta }_{\text{t}}$	Angle between the z-axis and the direction of the basis top parallelogram	°	90	52.5	9	36
Scattering parameters
$\varphi$	Amorphous to total volume fraction		0.28	0.28	0.28	0.28
$\mathrm{\Delta }{\rho }_{\text{am}}$	Difference between the SLD of amorphous starch region and water	${10}^{10}$ cm−2	4.97	4.97	4.97	4.97
$\mathrm{\Delta }{\rho }_{\text{cr}}$	Difference between the SLD of semi-crystalline starch region and water	${10}^{10}$ cm−2	6.07	6.07	6.07	6.07