Figure 8.

Bulk systems of 54,000 interacting hard spheres with varied relative concentrations of polymer content with chains having an average length of N = 1000 at ϕ = 0.58. The polymer relative concentration ranges from 0, 0.185, 0.741 to 1 (from left to right). In the pure polymer configuration (rightmost panel), sites are colored according to the parent chain. In all other cases, single and chain monomers are shown in red and blue, respectively. For chain concentrations of 0.185 and 0.741, sphere dimensions of dominant species are shown in a 2:5 scale for clarity. Image created with the VMD visualization software [54].