Real chains
Michael Rubinstein, Ralph H. Colby · 2003
Abstract In Chapter 2, we studied the conformations of an ideal chain that ignore interactions between monomers separated by many bonds along the chain. In this chapter we study the effect of these interactions on polymer conformations. To understand why these interactions are often important, we need to estimate the number of monomer-monomer contacts within a single coil. This number depends on the probability for a given monomer to encounter any other monomer that is separated from it by many bonds along the polymer.