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The structure and thermodynamics of polymers are discussed both with an adapted version of Flory’s regular solution theory and the concept of scaling and random walks. The salient properties of polymers like segregation and elasticity are discussed in terms of these concept. The Flory-Stockmayer theory of gelation is introduced and related to the percolation concept.
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Schirmacher, W. (2015). Structure of Polymers. In: Theory of Liquids and Other Disordered Media. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06950-0_6
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