Fig. 1.

Polymer conformation and the effect of different mixtures of poor solvent conditions. Normalized squared radius of gyration ${\overline{R}}_{\mathrm{g}}^2=⟨R_{\mathrm{g}}^2⟩\mathrm{∕}⟨R_{\mathrm{g}}{\left(x_{\mathrm{c}}=0\right)}^2⟩$ as a function of cosolvent molar concentration x _c. Results are shown for the generic simulations and for three different cases. The parameter-specific details of the generic cases are listed in the Supplementary Table 1. The results are shown for a chain length of N _l = 30, which corresponds to $~30{\ell }_p$ with ${\ell }_p$ being the persistence length. Here $⟨R_{\mathrm{g}}{\left(x_{\mathrm{c}}=0\right)}^2⟩$ = 2.6 ± 0.4σ ² and ${\overline{R}}_{\Theta }^2=2.13$ with ${\overline{R}}_{\Theta }=R_{\Theta }\mathrm{∕}{R}_{\mathrm{g}}\left(x_c=0\right)$ is the normalized Θ—point gyration radius. Here case 2 closely mimics the conformational behavior of PMMA in aqueous methanol mixture based on the parameterization presented in the Supplementary Table 1. Lines are polynomial fits to the data that are drawn to guide the eye