Figure 5.

(Left) Exponential moving average of the orientational order parameter, q, as a function of MC steps for the 100-chains N_av = 12 semi-flexible system with bending constant $k_{\theta }=9$ and equilibrium bending angle ${\theta }_0=90°$ at different packing densities, $\phi$. (Right) Visual representations at $\phi =0.59$ showing all 100 chains (top) and 10 randomly selected chains (bottom) with coordinates of the monomers being fully unwrapped in space. Monomers are colored according to the parent chain. Images created with VMD visualization software [141]. Individual panels are also available as stand-alone, interactive, 3-D images (in Supplementary Materials).