Movie S1.

Time lapse imaging illustrates raft behavior in a membrane for three different long and short rod stoichiometric ratios at the same dextran concentration of 40 mg/ml and achiral long rod composition of 37% left-handed and 63% right-handed rods. The long left-handed rods are fluorescently labeled with DyLight488. At low number density (15% short rods total) dilute rafts exhibit a gas-like structure. Rafts form higher-order structures such as tetramers and trimers in the membrane at intermediate raft density (25% short rods). At high density (30% short rods), rafts form square lattice-like assemblies leaving large open spaces in the membrane. Images were taken using fluorescence and differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy. Scale bar is 4 μm for all raft densities.

Conformational switching of chiral colloidal rafts regulates raft–raft attractions and repulsions

Joia M. Miller, Chaitanya Joshi, Prerna Sharma, Arvind Baskaran, Aparna Baskaran, Gregory M. Grason, Michael F. Hagan, and Zvonimir Dogic

PNAS. 2019. 116:15792-15801 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1900615116