Structure and properties of polymers in the pure amorphous liquid state

Polymers can also exist as pure amorphous liquids. Assertions to the contrary have now been largely abandoned. Since the screening lengths are comparable to the size of the monomer units, polymer chains obey Gaussian statistics on length scales comparable to the size of the statistical subunits and the whole molecule. Neutron-scattering experiments have verified this conclusion. The insight that this would be the case was presented by Flory

and deGennes.