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Chain Statistics: Helical Wormlike Chains

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As mentioned in Chap. 3, the KP model [1] may be applicable not only to stiff polymers but also to ordinary flexible polymers if the characteristic ratio C n increases monotonically to its coil-limiting value \(C_{\infty }\) as the number of skeletal bonds n in the chain is increased. For symmetric chains such as polymethylene, polyoxymethylene, and polyoxyethylene there is indeed good agreement between values of \(\langle R^{2}\rangle\) as a function of n for the KP and RIS models if the contour length L of the former is properly converted to n [2, 3].

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Yamakawa, H., Yoshizaki, T. (2016). Chain Statistics: Helical Wormlike Chains. In: Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48716-7_4

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