Part I: New Materials Based on Novel Concept of Element-Blocks

Chapter 1

Element-Block Materials: New Concept for Development of Advanced Hybrids and Inorganic Polymers

Chapter 2

Si-, Ge-, and Sn-Bridged Biaryls as pi-Conjugated Element Blocks

Chapter 3

Elements-block pi-Conjugated Polymers by Post-element-transformation Technique

Chapter 4

Borylated Polystyrenes as Versatile Functional Materials

Chapter 5

Element-block polymeric materials based on cage silsesquioxane frameworks

Chapter 6

Silsesquioxane based hierarchical and hybrid materials

Chapter 7

Nanocomposite materials properties of aminophenylsilsesquioxanes

Chapter 8

Necklace-shaped Dimethylsiloxane Polymers Bearing Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Cages as a New Type of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid

Chapter 9

Alternative Aspects of Polythiophenes Chapter 10

Polyphosphzenes as an Example of the Element-Blocks Approach to New Materials

Chapter 11

Electronic Structure of Element-Block Material As 4 S 6 with Cage Shape toward Soft Electride

Chapter 12

Metalloxane cage compounds as an element-block

Chapter 13

Preparation of Element-Block Materials Using Inorganic Nanostructures and Their Applications

Chapter 14

Design of Element Blocks for Photoresponsive Organosiloxane-based Materials

Chapter 15

How can we control the element-blocks in transition metal oxide crystals?

Part II: Applications of Element-Blocks as New Functional Materials

Chapter 16

Organic-inorganic hybrid material with surface modified zirconia nanoparticles as element blocks

Chapter 17

Network formation conditions control water drop adhesion for VK100 and a model Pt-cured silicone

Chapter 18

Block copolymers with element blocks: The metal-bisterpyridine linkage

Chapter 19

Three-dimensional Coordination Polymers composed of luminescent lanthanide element blocks

Chapter 20

Organic Hybrid Thermoelectric Materials Containing Nano-dispersed Poly(nickel 1,1,2,2-ethenetetrathiolata) as an Element Block

Chapter 21

Crystallization kinetics-induced self-assembly of inorganic element blocks and the surface enhanced Raman scattering based on Ag hierarchical structures

Chapter 22

Air-stable opto-electronic devices with metal-oxide cathodes

Chapter 23

Design of multi-functional soft-biomaterials based on the intermediate water concept

Chapter 24

Synthesis of calcium-phosphate-based nanoparticles as biocompatible and biofunctional element blocks