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Among the most commonly utilized synthetic polymers are polyolefins, such as polyethylenes (PEs), polypropylenes (PPs), and ethylene-propylene copolymers (P(E-co-P)s). Despite their simple elemental compositions, consisting of only carbon and hydrogen, it is well known that their physical properties are quite dependent on the microstructural features, such as short-and long-chain branchings, stereoregularities, chemical inversions of monomer enchainment, sequence distributions, etc.