(a) Comparison
between experimental (empty symbols) and numerical
(eq 2, full lines) form
factors for N ≈ 336 000. The x-axis is rescaled by γ = qexp*/qsim = 0.2326,
where q* is the position of the first peak of P(q). Different colors correspond to different
temperatures, T and solvophobic parameters, α,
increasing from bottom to top: T = 15.6, 20.1, 21.6,
25.4, 31.0, 35.4, 40.4 °C in experiments and α = 0.00,
0.05, 0.10, 0.30, 0.56, 0.74, 0.80 in simulations. Data at different T, α are rescaled on the y-axis with
respect to the lowest temperature in order to help visualization;
(b) snapshots of the N ≈ 336 000 microgels
for α = 0.0, 0.56, 0.80 with monomers represented in blue and
crosslinkers in red; (c) mapping between T and α.