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Published in final edited form as: Macromolecules. 2016 Feb 26;49(5):1950–1960. doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02305

Table 2.

Fitting Parameters for Linker Tension Expression in Eq 1 for 12 Bottle-Brush Systems Presented, along with 1/D² Values Calculated and Estimates for σ**(D²/4)^a

N_sc	N_bb	f_d(k_BT/σ)	β	Σ**(1/σ²)	1/D²(1/σ²)	Σ**(D²/4)
50	50	9.38 (0.56)	1.56 (0.05)	0.0048 (0.0004)	0.0010	1.15
	100	9.86 (0.44)	1.96 (0.11)	0.0048 (0.0003)	0.0011	1.11
	150	10.08 (0.39)	2.08 (0.17)	0.0048 (0.0003)	0.0011	1.11
	200	9.75 (0.78)	2.01 (0.17)	0.0046 (0.0004)	0.0011	1.05
100	50	10.34 (0.59)	1.39 (0.08)	0.0024 (0.0002)	0.00040	1.50
	100	9.32 (1.36)	1.40 (0.09)	0.0014 (0.0003)	0.00040	0.88
	150	9.44 (1.96)	1.51 (0.16)	0.0014 (0.0004)	0.00041	0.84
	200	10.29 (1.77)	1.56 (0.16)	0.0015 (0.0004)	0.00041	0.91
200	50	11.68 (0.86)	1.20 (0.07)	0.0014 (0.0002)	0.00017	2.06
	100	11.56 (1.95)	1.26 (0.11)	0.0007 (0.0002)	0.00016	1.08
	150	13.03 (1.67)	1.51 (0.17)	0.0007 (0.0001)	0.00015	1.17
	200	14.16 (1.03)	1.63 (0.11)	0.0008 (0.0001)	0.00016	1.20

Values in parentheses indicate the 95% confidence interval for the parameters from the fitting procedure. Estimated error for 1/D² is on the order of ±0.0001.