Fig. 4

Phase diagram of the composite gel. a The phase diagrams of a composite gel are shown as functions of the volume ratio s (≡(rex − rin)/rin) (see Fig. 1 for the definition of rex and rin) for g0 = 1.0 × 10−3 (black), 5.0 × 10−3 (orange), and 1.0 × 10−2 (light green), where g0 is the rescaled shear modulus (defined by Eq. (9)). b The phase diagram is shown as a function of the rescaled shear modulus g0 for s = 0.1 (cyan), 0.2 (black), and 0.3 (magenta)