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Polymer Chain Statistics

Atomic section generated from Complete Soft Matter Physics.

Published Apr 26, 2026 · 1 min

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A simple polymer can be modeled as a random walk of segments. For $N$ segments of length $b$ , the typical end-to-end size scales as

R\sim b\sqrt{N}

for an ideal chain.

Atomic section generated from Complete Soft Matter Physics.

Atomic section generated from Complete Soft Matter Physics.

A route through Brownian motion, diffusion, polymers, osmotic pressure, and liquid crystals.