| APEO | aromatic polyester with—O—spacer |
| APE6 | aromatic polyester with—(CH2)6—spacer |
| APE8 | aromatic polyester with—(CH2)8—spacer |
| APEr.ch. | rigid chain aromatic polyester |
| M w | weight-average molar mass |
| M 0 | the mass of the macroinitiator monomer unit |
| M APE | the macroinitiator molar mass |
| N 0 | the degree of polymerization of the macroinitiator |
| L 0 | the length of the monomer unit of the macroinitiator |
| L | the length of the macroinitiator macromolecule |
| A | the Kuhn segment length |
| M s | the mass of the side chain |
| N s | the degree of polymerization side chains |
| M 0s | the mass of the side chain monomer unit |
| λ | the length of the projection of the alkylene bond onto the direction of the PiPrOx chain |
| n | the number of side chains |
| z | the density of side chains grafting |
| ΔL | the distance between the grafting points along the main chain |
| δ | the degree of shielding of the backbone by side chains |