Lecture 12: February 12

More on Self-Avoiding Random Walks

Applications of Random Walks to Polymers

• Here is a simple tutorial on polyethylene which is one of the simplest polymers, here is a another Introduction to Polymers, and here is information on recycling used polymers.

• The Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Flory was one of the most eminent workers in polymer science.

• The Nobel Prize winning physicist Pierre de Gennes introduced the reptation model for describing polymer dynamics. Here is a recent publication which verifies this model experimentally for a system of entangled polyethylene chains.

DNA is a Polymer

• The Whitehead Institute at M.I.T., and by

• Celera Genomics.