Figure 5.

Kink bending. A) Depiction of a fibril with one kink (top) breaking and bending more than a fibril with two kinks (bottom). Colored beads represent the broken bonds. B) Schematic of the kink bending direction s _k, for a kink population n _k = 2. Top: fibril with kinks bending in opposite directions, s ₁ = −s ₂. Bottom: a fibril with kinks bending in the same direction s ₁ = s ₂. C) $〈|{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n_{\mathrm{k}}}{s}_i}|〉$, for kink populations n _k = 2, 3, 4. Solid horizontal lines represent the theoretical values using a probability p = 0.65 of kinks bending in the same direction as the previous kink.