Fig. 1.

Theoretical curves for a finite-size polymer model. Log–log plot of mean radii of gyration ${\overline{R}}_g$ (2) (in Kuhn length units) against the number of monomers N at different values of $\epsilon$ below and above ${\epsilon }_{\theta }\simeq 0.27$. Typical configurations at $\epsilon =0.20k_{B}T$ and $N=5012$ (red), $\epsilon =0.44k_{B}T$ and $N=109$, 538 and 5012 (from left to right, blue) are shown. The green dots are a rough representation of the radius of gyration as a function of the domain length from the simulated sticky polymer domain of Ref. [2] (Fig. 4c), up to the close packing limit (dotted line)