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Acknowledgements<br />
W. Caliebe is gratefully acknowledged for his help at the W1 beaml<strong>in</strong>e. This work is<br />
part <strong>of</strong> research programme 04PR2359 <strong>of</strong> the Foundation for Fundamental Research on<br />
Matter (FOM), which is part <strong>of</strong> the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research<br />
(NWO). G.C., A.H.G.V. and B.N. also acknowledge f<strong>in</strong>ancial support from the<br />
NWO-Vidi grant 700.54.426, and from the Explora grant MAT2010-10067-E (G.C.).<br />
A.L. and E.S. acknowledge f<strong>in</strong>ancial support from the European Union under the<br />
Framework 6 program under a contract for an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative.<br />
Reference 026019 ESTEEM.<br />
Author contributions<br />
G.C. and B.N. have devised, designed and organized the work; A.H.G.V. and A.J. have<br />
grown the <strong>films</strong> under the supervision <strong>of</strong> G.R. and D.H.A.B.; A.H.G.V., G.C., G.R. and<br />
B.N. have carried out the X-ray experiments and analysed the X-ray data; A.L., E.S. and<br />
C.M. have designed, carried out and organized the electron microscopy experiments and<br />
analysed the data. All the authors have contributed to the discussions.<br />
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The authors declare no compet<strong>in</strong>g f<strong>in</strong>ancial <strong>in</strong>terests. Repr<strong>in</strong>ts and permissions<br />
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