Strain and frequency measurements were carried out using an Anton Paar Physica MCR101 rheometer, measuring 2 mL of sample in 7 mL Sterilin vials. Measurements were performed using a vane geometry with gap distance between the geometry and the bottom of the sample vial set to 1.8 mm and temperature set to 25 °C. All strain and frequency measurements were carried out in triplicate and values averaged. Error bars represent the standard deviation between the replicates. Frequency sweeps were performed under a strain of 0.1 %. Strain sweeps were performed at an angular frequency of 10 rad/s. Fibre X-ray Diffraction. Samples were allowed to align overnight at room temperature by placing a 10 µL droplet between two wax filled glass capillary tubes. The resulting fibre bundle was placed on a goniometer head and X-ray fibre diffraction data was collected using a Rigaku rotating anode (CuKalpha) and Saturn CCD detector with exposure times of 30-60 s and specimen to detector distances of 50 and 100 mm. The diffraction patterns were examined using mosflm and converted to tiff format for analysis using CLEARER.