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Snaking Through a Tube
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d
∝ N³
Contour L
∝ N
τ
d
∝ N³
0%
State
—
Primitive chain (beads)
Confining tube (a ≈ 8 nm)
Neighbor entanglements
Escaped / renewed contour
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