Sidegroups polar

Polymers with Flexible Polar Sidegroups Attached to an Apolar Mainchain... 

Scheme 6.1. Chemical structure of acrylate (Ri = H) and methacrylate (Ri = CH3) polymers, both possessing a nonpolar mainchain and a polar sidegroup.

Figure 42. The mobility of electrons in this family of compounds is affected by the presence of additional polar substituents (-CF3 substitution for -H on a phenyl sidegroup), rather than the net dipole moment. In contrast to the order of the dipole moments, the mobilities (p) in M and P are nearly equal, and they are much lower, and more strongly dependent on electric field strength ( ), than the mobility in PTS. (Reprinted with permission from Ref. [64p].)...

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