Network topology path length

In this approach only static topological properties of networks can be investigated such as the number and length of the paths between two molecules, the number and length of cycles, the enumeration of occurrences of particular subnetwork structures, and how those properties scale with the size of the network. This type of modelling we shall refer to as topological network modelling. 

Here, we have introduced the contour length of the primitive path, /pr, and an associated sequence length Upr- Upr characterizes the stiffness of the primitive path and is determined by the topology of the entanglement network. 

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