Abstract
Homopolymers are polymers consisting of many identical monomers bonded sequentially. (In Chapter 10 we considered the entanglement problem for such polymers). Heteropolymers are polymers consisting of different groups of monomers. A protein is a heteropolymer; its monomers are amino-acids whose molecular structure is There are about 20 different amino-acids, each having a different radical R.
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Friedman, A. (1990). Conformation of random polymers. In: Mathematics in Industrial Problems. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 31. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9098-5_14
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