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The Grain Field Statistics does not simply apply to polymer systems, it may also describe other entities in interactions. Polymers are unique in the sense that molecular relaxations are very slow in comparison to what happens in other branches of physics. This gives us a chance to observe and study transients instead of steady states, usually observed in classical statistical systems. For instance, in atomistics, one studies the interactions between the nucleus and the electrons which governs the lay out of the structure into orbitals of type s, p, d , with rules to fill up the quantum levels. But no one describes the transients that necessarily occur when an electron jumps from one energy level to the next! The stability of the atomic structure is itself a function of temperature and we know that some of the electrons are free to move in a plasma. These concepts are the same as those I study in the Grain-Field Statistics applied to conformers: when I consider entanglements as a stable solution of interpenatrating macro-coils or when I study the instability of the entanglement network or the possibility to create a multi-phase network to increase the stabilty of the structure, giving rise to "sustained orientation". In other words, working with polymers and understanding their behavior well, may lead us to reconsider other physical systems of interactions from a different angle.
This being said, the first task is to understand polymers.
I present below 3 slide presentations which provide some results of the use of the Grain-Field statistics applied to conformers in interactions. The audio files are available as part of my course on the subject.
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