Movie S5.

Tilted LC-PolScope time lapse of a tetrameric raft structure in an achiral background membrane of long rods shows that the tetramer is made up of both left- and right-handed rafts. Tilted LC-PolScope allows us to distinguish between left-handed and right-handed rod twist in membranes. Left-handed rafts show a bright upper edge and dark lower edge, while right-handed rafts show a dark upper edge and bright lower edge. The center raft of the tetramer is left-handed while the outer-rafts are right-handed. Scale bar is 2 μm.

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