Overview of siloxane polymers / James E. Mark -- From sand to silicones : an overview of the chemistry of silicones / Larry N. Lewis -- Cationic ring opening polymerization of cyclotrisiloxanes with mixed siloxane units / J. Chojnowski, K. Kaźmierski, M. Cypryk, and W. Fortuniak -- Hydrogenated and deuterated cyclic poly(dimethylsiloxanes) / Anthony C. Dagger and J. Anthony Semlyen -- Calculation of a reaction path for KOH-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization of cyclic siloxanes / J.D. Kress, P.C. Leung, G.J. Tawa, and P.J. Hay -- Mesophase behavior and structure of mesophases in cyclolinear polyorganosiloxanes / Yu. K. Godovsky, N.N. Makarova, and E.V. Matukhina -- Photoluminescence of phenyl- and methylsubstituted cyclosiloxanes / Udo Pernisz, Norbert Auner, and Michael Backer -- Synthesis and characterization of amino acid functional siloxanes / J.G. Matisons and A. Provatas -- Telechelic aryl cyanate ester oligosiloxanes : impact modifiers for cyanate ester resins / Steven K. Pollack and Zhidong Fu -- UV curable silicones from acryloxymethyldimethylacryloxysilane / H.K. Chu -- Advances in non-toxic silicone biofouling release coatings / Tim Burnell, John Carpenter, Kathryn Truby, Judy Serth-Guzzo, Judith Stein, and Deborah Wiebe -- Poly(dimethylsiloxane) gelation studies / R.F.T. Stepto, D.J.R. Taylor, T. Partchuk, and M. Gottlieb -- NMR spin-spin relaxation studies of reinforced poly(dimethylsiloxane) melts / Terence Cosgrove, Michael J. Turner, Ian Weatherhead, Claire Roberts, Tania Garasanin, Randall G. Schmidt, Glenn V. Gordon, and Jonathan P. Hannington -- Synthesis of organosilicon linear polymer with octaorganooctasilsesquioxanes structural units in main chain / N.A. Tebeneva, E.A. Rebrov, and A.M. Muzafarov -- Halogenated siloxane-containing polymers via hydrosilylation polymerization / J. Hu and D.Y. Son -- Radially layered poly(amidoamine-organosilicon) copolymeric dendrimers and their networks containing controlled hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanoscopic domains / Petar R. Dvornic, Agnes M. de Leuze-Jallouli, Michael J. Owen, and Susan V. Perz -- Organic-inorganic hybrid polymers from atom transfer radical polymerization and poly(dimethylsiloxane) / Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Peter J. Miller, Guido Kickelbick, Yoshiki Nakagawa, Steven Diamanti, and Cristina Pacis -- Synthesis and photoinitiated cationic polymerization of monomers containing the silsesquioxane core / James V. Crivello and Ranjit Malik -- Low modulus fluorosiloxane-based hydrogels for contact lens application / J. Künzler and R. Ozark -- Fluorosilicones containing the perfluorocyclobutane aromatic ether linkage / Dennis W. Smith, Jr., Junmin Ji, Sridevi Narayan-Sarathy, Robert H. Neilson, and David A. Babb -- Surface properties of thin film poly(dimethylsiloxane) / H. She, M.K. Chaudhury, and Michael J. Owen -- Aggregation structure and surface properties of 18-nonadecenyltrichlorosilane monolayer and multilayer films prepared by the Langmuir method / Ken Kojio, Atsushi Takahara, and Tisato Kajiyama -- An investigation of the surface properties and phase behavior of poly(dimethylsiloxane-b-ethyleneoxide) multiblock copolymers / Harri Jukarainen, Stephen J. Clarson, and Jukka V. Seppälä -- Poly(siloxyethylene glycol) for new functionality materials / Yukio Nagasaki and Hidetoshi Aoki -- Polycarbonate-polysiloxane-based interpenetrating networks / Sylvie Boileau, Laurent Bouteiller, Riadh Ben Khalifa, Yi Liang, and Dominique Teyssié -- High strength silicone-urethane copolymers : synthesis and properties / Emel Yilgör, Ayşen Tulpar, Şebnem Kara, and Iskender Yilgör -- Silicon-terminated telechelic oligomers by acyclic diene metathesis chemistry / K.R. Brzezinska, K.B. Wagener, and G.T. Burns -- Hydrogen bond interactions and self-condensation of silanol-containing polymers in polymer blends and organic-inorganic polymeric hybrids / Eli M. Pearce, T.K. Kwei, and Shaoxiang Lu -- A review of the ruthenium-catalyzed copolymerization of aromatic ketones and 1,3-divinyltetramethyldisiloxane : preparation of alt-poly(carbosilane-siloxanes) / William P. Weber, Hongjie Guo, Cindy L. Kepler, Timothy M. Londergan, Ping Lu, Jyri Paulsaari, Jonathan R. Sargent, Mark A. Tapsak, and Guohong Wang -- Block copolymers containing silicone and vinyl polymer segments by free radical polymerization / D. Graiver, B. Nguyen, F.J. Hamilton, Y. Kim, and H.J. Harwood -- Synthesis of polymers containing silicon atoms of regulated structure / Yusuke Kawakami -- Investigation of the synthesis of bis-(3-trimethoxysilylpropyl)fumarate / Peter M. Miranda -- In situ formed siloxane-silica filler for rubbery organic networks / Libor Matějka -- From a hyperbranched polyethoxysiloxane toward molecular forms of silica : a polymer-based approach to the monitoring of silica properties / V.V. Kazakova, E.A. Rebrov, V.B. Myakushev, T.V. Strelkova, A.N. Ozerin, L.A. Ozerina, T.B. Chenskaya, S.S. Sheiko, E. Yu. Sharipov, and A.M. Muzafarov -- Synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of siloxane-containing modifiers for photocurable epoxy coating formulations / Mark D. Soucek, Shaobing Wu, and Srinivasan Chakrapani -- TOSPEARL, silicone resin for industrial applications / Robert J. Perry and Mary E. Adams -- Oxygen gas barrier PET films formed by deposition of plasma-polymerized SiOx Films / N. Inagaki