Fractal globule

A fractal globule also sometimes called a crumpled globule is a name used to describe polymers that have compact local and global scaling.^[1] They can be modeled through a Hamiltonian Walk, a lattice walk in which every point is only visited once and no paths intersect, this prevents knot formation. A crumpled globule forms through local regions crumpling, i.e. collapsing in on themselves and this iteratively occurring over the whole polymer.^[2] This process follows the Space Filling Peano Curve.

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