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8: Polymer Lattice Models

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Polymer lattice models refer to models that represent chain configurations through the placement of a chain of connected beads onto a lattice. These models are particularly useful for describing the configurational entropy of a polymer and excluded volume effects. However, one can also explicitly enumerate how energetic interactions between beads influences the probability of observing a particular configuration. At a higher level, models can be used to describe protein folding and DNA hybridization.

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1. K. Dill and S. Bromberg, Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Nanoscience. (Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2010); S. F. Sun, Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules: Basic Principles and Issues, Array ed. (J. Wiley, Hoboken, N.J., 2004), Ch. 4.


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