not merely by active metabolism as the curvature and entropic effect can contribute and facilitate these processes [@Hubner; @Marshall; @Judrod].

We would like to thank anonymous referees for their fruitful comments and Axel Arnold, Minne P. Lettinga, Davide Marenduzzo, and Marco Polin for very useful discussions. This research was conducted using the computational resources of Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and Stellenbosch University, Rhasatsha HPC.

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Supplemental Material
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Field theoretical analogy
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To elaborate the origin of the entropic competition and phase behavior, we present a brief field theoretical description [@Glenn] of the main-chain liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) [@de_gennes] which are similar to our stiff segmented polymers, Fig. 1(a) main article. We consider the LCPs as wormlike chains, although this model assumes the whole chain as a semiflexible chain which resists to the bending, it provides simple explanation for LCPs 