The approach taken by Carothers' group was to adapt known synthesises that produced short chain polymers to produce long chain molecules.

This structure can readily be adapted to form long chain polymers.

The flexibility of an unbranched chain polymer is characterized by its persistence length.

The study of long chain polymers has been a source of problems within the realms of statistical mechanics since about the 1950s.

One such example is the spatial configuration of long chain polymers.

The castings were composed of long chain polymers, which, when first expelled, were one of the most adhesive substances ever known.

The glass transition is not specific to long chain polymers.

Polymeric liquid crystals form long head-to-tail or side chain polymers, which are woven in thick mats and therefore have high viscosities.

Cellulose is composed of straight chain polymers, whose base units of glucose are held together by beta-linkages.

Nowadays, the longer chain polymer, 2-octyl cyanoacrylate, is the preferred medical grade glue.