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 sakriti opis