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Crystallinity (degree of ordering), τc, as a function of packing density, ϕ, for freely-jointed chains of tangent hard spheres (N = 12) and for hard sphere monomers. Vertical green and blue dotted lines indicate the freezing (ϕF) and melting points (ϕM), respectively, for hard sphere monomers of uniform size.
