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. 2020 Oct 3;12(10):2275. doi: 10.3390/polym12102275

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Definition of states $A$ , $L_{0}$ , $L_{1}$ , …, $B$ (shown by boxes) over the range of contact numbers between 0 and N. State $A$ represents the adsorbed polymer and state $B$ the desorbed polymer. Intermediate transitional states are named $L_{i}$ . State A encompasses contact numbers from N down to 10 or 0.1N (whichever is smallest).