Introduction: My Favorite Element ; Organosilicon Chemistry: A Brief Overview ; Silicon-Containing Polymers ; Formation of Linear Siloxane Polymers ; Thermal and Rheological Properties of Alkyl-Substituted Polysiloxanes ; Pyrid- and 1-Oxypridinyl-Substituted Silanes and Siloxanes New Catalysts for Interfacial Transacylation Reactions ; Polysiloxane-Based Polymer-Electrolyte Complexes ; Conformational Analysis of Substituted Polysiloxane Polymers ; Synthesis and Fractionation Studies of Functionalized Organosiloxanes ; Novel Poly(imide-siloxane) Polymers and Copolymers ; Polysiloxane-Thermoplastic Interpenetrating Polymer Networks ; Non-Gaussian Effects and Intermolecular Correlations in Bimodal Networks of Poly(dimethyisiloxane) ; New Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials Through the Sol-Gel Approach ; Structure and Growth of Silica Condensation Polymers ; Hydrolysis and Condensation Kinetics of Dimeric Sol-Gel Species by ^2]9Si NMR Spectroscopy ; A Silicate Substitution Route to Organosilicon Compounds ; Organosilicon Polymers for Microlithographic Applications ; Modifications of Well-Defined Polysilanes ; Mechanistic Studies of Polysilane Polymerization ; Polymers and Copolymers of Disilacyclohexadiene: A Non-Alkali-Metal Route to Polysilanes ; Transition-Metal-Substituted Oligo- and Polysilanes ; Structures, Phase Transitions, and Morophology of Polysilylenes ; Order-Disorder Transitions and Thermochromism of Polysilylenes in Solution: Theory and Experiment ; Configurational Properties of a Stiff-Chain Diaryl-Substituted Polysilane in Dilute Solution ; Radiation Sensitivity of Soluble Polysilane Derivatives ; Exciton-Exciton Annihilation in Polysilanes ; Electronic Transport in Polysilylenes ; Synthesis and Properties of Silicon-Branched Organosilicon Polymers ; Electronic Structures of Silicon-Based Polymers ; Band Structure and Optical Absorption Properties of Polysilane Chains ; Ground States and Ionization Energies of Polysilane Oligomers ; Synthesis of Some Organosilicon Polymers and Their Pyrolytic Conversion to Ceramics ; Polymeric Routes to Silicon Carbide and Silicon Nitride Fibers ; New Polymer Precursors for Silicon Nitride ; Oxidation Reaction of Polycarbosilane ; Synthesis and Properties of Silicon-Containing Polyacetylenes ; Brominated Poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne): Lithography and Photochemistry ; Stereoregular Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Silacyclopent-3-enes ; Stereoregular 1,4 Polymerization of 2-Triethylsilyl-1,3-butadiene ; Synthesis and Lithographic Evaluation of a Poly(acylsilane) ; Siloxane Surface Activity ; Synthesis, Properties, and Potential Applications of Silphenylene-Siloxane Polymers ; Future Directions for Silicon-Based Polymers