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For the planar good-solvent coil, R∼ℓN3/4. The two-dimensional polymer overlap fraction is therefore
ϕ∗∼ℓ2N3/2Nℓ2​=N−1/2,ϕ∗∼10−2=1%.​
(1)
This is a scaling estimate; the monomer geometry and choice of coil radius set order-one numerical factors.

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