Content: PREFACE ; DEDICATION ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. ADVANCED MATERIALS CONTAINING THE SILOXANE BOND ; STEPHEN J. CLARSON ; SILICONES ; 2. PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OF SILICONES ; MICHAEL J. OWEN ; 3. POLYMORPHS OF OCTAPHENYLCYCLOTETRASILOXANE ; ABHILASHA M. BARUAH, ANIRBAN KARMAKAR, AND JUBARAJ B. BARUAH ; 4. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CYCLOALIPHATIC SILOXANES COPOLYMERS ; RUBY CHAKRABORTY AND MARK D. SOUCEK ; 5. TRYPSIN-CATALYZED CROSS-LINKING OF ?,?-TRIETHOXYSILYL-TERMINATED POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH ; PAUL M. ZELISKO, TRAVIS DUDDING, KAREN R. ARNELIEN, AND HEIDI STANISIC ; 6. VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE STABILIZED MAGNETITE MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE COMPLEXES ; WEN YIN, QIONGDAN XIE, JIANJUN DENG, JONATHAN D. GOFF, TIMOTHY P. VADALA, JUDY S. RIFFLE, AND ALAN R. ESKER ; 7. CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPLEX ENGINEERING SILICONES BY 1H MULTIPLE QUANTUM NMR AND LARGE SCALE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS ; ROBERT S. MAXWELL, RICHARD H. GEE, THEODORE BAUMANN, NAIDA LACEVIC, JULIE L. HERBERG, AND SARAH C. CHINN ; 8. CHARACTERIZATION OF A BIOMEDICAL GRADE SILICA-FILLED SILICONE ELASTOMER USING ULTRASOUND ; ALEXANDER R. ANIM-MENSAH, JEFFREY E. FRANKLIN, ANIRUDDHA S. PALSULE, LUIS A. SALAZAR, CHRISTOPHER W. WIDENHOUSE, DAVID B. MAST, JAMES E. MARK, WILLIAM B. KRANTZ, AND STEPHEN J. CLARSON ; 9. FLUOROSILICONES ; MICHAEL J. OWEN ; COPOLYMERS, NETWORKS AND DENDRIMERS ; 10. FLUORINE-CONTAINING ORGANOSILICON POLYMERS OF DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURES SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES STUDY ; N. A. SHEREMETYEVA, N. V. VORONINA, A. V. BYSTROVA, V. D. MIAKUSHEV, M. I. BUZIN, AND A. M. MUZAFAROV ; 11. RADIALLY LAYERED POLY(AMIDOAMINE-ORGANOSILICON) DENDRIMERS ; PETAR R. DVORNIC AND MICHAEL J. OWEN ; 12. ETCHING OF SILICONE ELASTOMERS: CONTROLLED MANIPULATION OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ; MICHAEL A. BROOK, LIHUA LIU, SHIGUI ZHAO, AND ZAID N. MAMMO ; 13. NOVEL ORGANO-SILOXANE COPOLYMERS FOR FLAME RETARDANT APPLICATIONS ; RAVI MOSURKAL, VINCENT TUCCI, LYNNE A. SAMUELSON, KENNETH D. SMITH, PHILLIP R. WESTMORELAND, VIRINDER S. PARMAR, JAYANT KUMAR, AND ARTHUR C. WATTERSON ; 14. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INFLUENCE OF CROSSLINKER TYPE AND SOLVENT COMPOSITION ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND PHASE TRANSITION BEHAVIOR OF POLY(N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE) HYDROGELS ; CANDAN ERBIL, EZGI TOZ, OZGUR AKDEMIR, AND NURSELI UYAN?K ; POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES ; 15. ION EFFECTS ON TRISILANOLPHENYL-POSS AS AN ADHESION PROMOTER ; SARAH M. HUFFER, UFUK KARABIYIK, JOSHUA R. UZARSKI, AND ALAN R. ESKER ; 16. POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANE-FUNCTIONALIZED PERFLUOROCYCLOBUTYL ARYL ETHER POLYMERS ; SCOTT T. IACONO, STEPHEN M. BUDY, JOSEPH M. MABRY, AND DENNIS W. SMITH, JR. ; 17. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A STABLE POSS(R)/POLYMER COMPOSITE? ; DAVID A. SCHIRALDI AND SUBRAMANIAN IYER ; SILICA ; 18. THE ROLE OF NON-BONDED INTERACTIONS IN SILICA FORMATION IN VITRO ; SIDDHARTH V. PATWARDHAN, DAVID BELTON, GRAHAM TILBUREY, AND CAROLE C. PERRY ; APPLICATIONS OF SILICONES AND SILICONE-MODIFIED MATERIALS ; 19. FUNCTION OF SILICON-OXYGEN BONDS IN FABRICATION OF HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS ; YUSUKE KAWAKAMI AND YEONG HEE CHO ; 20. FOAM CONTROL ; MICHAEL J. OWEN ; INDEXES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX