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Quantitative fittings of literature data on the equilibrium moduli of weak aqueous casein gels to four variants of a classical polycondensation model are compared with the fitting of the same data by their originators to the modem scaling model. By no means unexpectedly, all five fittings are statistically almost equivalently good, though the differences between the classical and modern approaches are profound. Scaling assumes the dominance of a 3-dimensional excluded-volume effect, while the dimension-invariant classical theory relies on this effect cancelling out. The methodology for making progress in this situation depends on the refinement of the initial models by the interplay of theory and experiment in the light of statistical analysis.
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Gordon, M. (1986). Thermodynamics of Casein Gels and the Universality of Network Theories. In: Kleintjens, L.A., Lemstra, P.J. (eds) Integration of Fundamental Polymer Science and Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4185-4_22
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