Figure 6.

Jammed packing 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 a packing density of ϕ = 0.637. (Left panel): Monomers are colored according to the parent chain; (Right panel): Monomers are colored according to the lowest value of the CCE norm. Blue, red, and green denote HCP, FCC, and FIV similarity, respectively. Amorphous (AMO) ones are colored yellow with reduced dimensions for clarity. Sphere monomers are shown with coordinates of their centers being subjected to periodic boundary conditions. Image created with the VMD visualization software [54]. Figure panels are also available as interactive, 3-D images in Supplementary Materials.