We thank Dr. Y. Feldman for the XRD analysis. This research has been financially supported by the MEYS CR under the project CEITEC 2020 (LQ1601) and the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement No. 810626 (SINNCE). CIISB research infrastructure project LM2018127 funded by the MEYS CR is gratefully acknowledged for the financial support of the measurements at the CEITEC MU CF X-ray Diffraction and Bio-SAXS and the CF Cryo-electron Microscopy and Tomography. The support of the Irving and Cherna Moskowitz Center for Nano and Bio-Nano Imaging, the Perlman Family Foundation, the Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science Grant No. 43535000350000, is greatly acknowledged.

This file contains the raw unprocessed experimental data for the results published in Kundrát et al., Synthesis and characterization of WS2/SiO2 microfibers, Journal of Materials Science volume 56, pages 10834–10846 (2021).