Fig. 7.

The angular (χ) dependence of the portion of the PMFT directly attributable to modification of particle shape (Ω; see Eq. 11), normalized to 0 at $\chi =0$) for spherocylinders in the presence of penetrable hard sphere depletants for different cylinder side lengths. For short side lengths ($\ell =1$, light blue ■), there is very little angular variation, indicating very little entropic torque. As the side length, ℓ, increases from 1 to 5 (in units of the depletant radius, pink ▼), the strength of the dependence on χ increases, indicating greater torques, as expected.