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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Entropy (Basel). 2008 Sep 20;10(3):285–308. doi: 10.3390/e10030285

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Schematic representations of a large loop of N-bonds deforming with fluctuating cross-linking hydrogen bonds. The number of cross-links can range from 0 to ≈ N/4. Note that because all cross-links are independent for these flexible structures, the DCM prediction for the entropy reduction only depends on the number of cross-links. The exact formula for entropy reduction completely accounts for the location of the cross-links and all accessible atomic geometries consistent with the fixed topology.