Figure 9.

Computer-generated representations of the crystal growth of the 100-chains N_av = 12 semi-flexible system chains with bending constant $k_{\theta }=9$ and equilibrium bending angle ${\theta }_0=0°$ at (top) $\phi =0.58$ after (from left to right) 1, 25, 60 and $100\times {10}^8$ MC steps, and at (bottom) $\phi =0.60$ after (from left to right) 1, 240, 300 and $350\times {10}^8$ MC steps. Monomers are color-coded according to CCE norm. Blue, red, and green correspond to HCP-, FCC-, and FIV-like sites, respectively. Amorphous (AMO) sites are colored yellow. For visual clarity, monomers are shown with reduced dimensions. Individual panels are also available as stand-alone, interactive, 3-D images (in Supplementary Materials).