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Branched polymers, polymer gels and percolation theory

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This paper is concerned with the application of percolation theory, and related ideas such as the statistics of lattice animals, to model the behavior of branched polymer molecules and the sol-gel phase transition in polymer systems.

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  • Branch Point
  • Critical Exponent
  • Percolation Theory
  • Percolation Model
  • Bethe Lattice

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Whittington, S.G. (1983). Branched polymers, polymer gels and percolation theory. In: Hughes, B.D., Ninham, B.W. (eds) The Mathematics and Physics of Disordered Media: Percolation, Random Walk, Modeling, and Simulation. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1035. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0073264

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