Figure 3.

Different states of CAHS‐8 imaged by AFM in the liquid (A,B) and air mode (C,D). A) Dissolving the gel on mica revealed fibrils and allowed a kinetic series to be recorded (see Figure 3). B) Allowing fibrillation to continue whilst the sample is drying shows an increasingly dense matrix of fibrils. C) After the kinetic series from (A) was recorded and the sample fully dehydrated, air imaging displays the entanglement of the fibrils forming a gel. D) Placing a 30 mg mL⁻¹ gel on glass reveals porous structures, comprising cavities with diameters of tens of nanometers.