Solution-based macromolecules frozen solutions

Although a network is not present in a concentrated solution, there exists a characteristic length, which had earlier been assumed the distance between neighbouring network sites. The characteristic length is a dynamic one. There are no temporary knots in a polymer system, though there is a characteristic time, which is the lifetime of the frozen large-scale conformation of a macromolecule in the system. So, the conceptions of intermediate length and characteristic time are based on deeper ideas and are reflected in the theory. 

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