The preceding discussion illustrates the need to have theoretical or computational approaches to complement synthetic efforts, so that properties can be predicted and designed without the need for extensive synthesis. However, even the conformational attributes of an individual bottlebrush chain in dilute solution remain unsettled in the literature. The main goal has been to understand molecular conformations using information associated with the molecular architecture (the grafting density f , the length of the backbone N bb , and the length of the side chains N sc ) to obtain conformational measures (radius of gyration, R G , hydrodynamic radius, R H , intrinsic viscosity, [η], persistence length, p and bottlebrush diameter, D).