Rheological measurements of each sample were made using a stress-controlled Discovery Hybrid Rheometer, Model HR-3 (TA Instruments) with a sand-blasted 40 mm parallel plate geometry. The temperature was kept at either 25, 45, or 65 °C using a Peltier unit (±0.1 °C). Results were copied directly from the software to a tab delimited format.

SAXS data was collected on an Anton-Parr SAXSpoint 2.0, using an SDD of 556.9mm. The instrument is known to have a single dead pixel which sometimes results in an anomolous single-point peak.

Conductivity measurements were made using a Mettler Toledo SevenMulti™. The mixtures were gradually heated from room temperature (~26 °C) to ~65 °C and conductivity measurements taken at regular intervals. Measurements were taken in triplicate for each temperature.