Two theoretical approaches to configurational statistics of polymer tail chain
吴大诚, 康健, 杜鹏, 顾群 · 中国科学通报：英文版 · 1996
When a polymer chain has only one end group attaching to the boundary and all the other segments are located in the half-space divided by the boundary, it is defined as a tail chain~. Obviously, the model of tail chain represents the simplest form of polymer