Material state statistical distribution functions

In this contribution, a flexible statistical mechanical treatment of various types of supramolecular polymerization has been described based on the free energy functional Eq. (1). The treatment deals with the distribution of material over the monomeric and polymeric states at the mean-field level, but does allow for a nonmean-fleld analysis of the configurational statistics of the chains. It should be accurate in most practical situations away from a critical point. 

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