Figure 3.

Snapshots of the initial configurations for the 100-chains, N_av = 12, $k_{\theta }=9$, ${\theta }_0=$ 0° system showing at increasing packing densities. From left to right: $\phi$ = 0.10, 0.20, 0.30, and 0.50. Monomers are colored according to the parent chain. For clarity, only 50 chains (half of the total population) are shown. Chains are shown with the coordinates being fully unwrapped in space. Images created with VMD visualization software [141]. Individual panels are also available as stand-alone, interactive, 3-D images (in Supplementary Materials).