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<Paul Flory> developed a lattice treatment of <polymer solutions> that accounts for the reduced mixing <entropy> of connected chain segments. A chain contributes many segments but remains one translating <molecule>.
This distinction helps explain why long-chain mixtures can separate under small unfavourable contact energies. <Flory–Huggins solution theory> connects molecular connectivity with the balance between mixing <entropy> and interaction energy.<Thermodynamics of High Polymer Solutions by Paul J. Flory>[Lattice counting and combinatorial entropy]{ref}
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