Figure 7.

Sticker clustering tunes intradroplet organization. (A) Assortativity, a measure of the spatial mixing between stickers and spacers, is measured for the entire system as a function of sticker strength, spacer strength, and sticker clustering. For each system, the phase boundary is shown as a dashed line for reference. For the well-clustered sequences, significant deviations from a value of 0 are observed. (B) To understand the origins of these large assortativity values, we generated snapshots from distinct regions in panel A (orange beads are stickers, and black beads spacers). These revealed the intradroplet organization of stickers into local clusters and subdomains. For sequences with the most well-clustered stickers, we observe an assortativity of >0 at subsaturating concentrations due to the presence of small labile clusters.