Abstract
Scaling analysis is a powerful tool to learn non-ideal-chain conformations. Several examples are introduced by considering the volume repulsion and its concentration effect, the attraction in a single chain, the charge interactions and their concentration effect, the stretching, the compression, and the adsorption, respectively. The blob model reflects the local thermal energy against the external disturbance. The Flory mean-field treatment derives the optimized coil size.
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Hu, W. (2013). Scaling Analysis of Real-Chain Conformations. In: Polymer Physics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0670-9_4
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