ABSTRACT
The shapes of polymer chains, molecules linked together to form a sequence of connected molecules, has several types of geometries beyond the linear polymer chains (Hiemenz and Lodge, 2007). Branched and cross linked polymer chains are common and arise from the “backbone” of a linear molecule (Hiemenz and Lodge, 2007). The amount of such polymer branching structure is a branching upon branching of a molecule will result in a network type of geometry that is termed cross linked (Hiemenz and Lodge, 2007). Some multi-branched molecules have discrete units and are termed hyper-branched polymers and other multi-branched polymers known as dendrimers, or tree-like, molecules (Hiemenz and Lodge, 2007).
