Figure 4.

Bulk system configurations of semi-flexible chains of tangent hard spheres of uniform size with average length of N = 100 and an equilibrium angle of θ₀ = 120° at progressively higher volume fractions, ϕ: (top left) 0.001, (top right) 0.10 and (bottom left) 0.60. (bottom right): All three system configurations shown together allowing for a visual comparison of their dimensions. Monomers are colored according to their parent chain. Sphere monomers are shown with coordinates of their centers subjected to periodic boundary conditions. Image created with VMD visualization software [54]. Figure panels are also available as interactive, 3-D images in Supplementary Materials.