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Schematic representation of the 9‐nm repeat structure. The gray rectangle represents the double helix structure composed of glucose. Before swelling, the amorphous regions between crystal lamellae get shrunken, and the higher‐order structure becomes “nematic‐like.” After swelling, water molecules expand into the interlamellar region, and the resulting higher‐order structure is “smectic‐like”
