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Energy can be supplied to biopolymers in a number of different ways. The most important of these, the most common of natural occurrence, are collisional thermal energy or heat, electromagnetic energy or light, and metabolic or chemical energy.
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Hasted, J.B. (1988). Metastable States of Biopolymers. In: Fröhlich, H. (eds) Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73309-3_6
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