SILICON CHEMISTRY (Relié)

The results of joint Austrian-German-Swiss research. programs range over new phenomena in compounds with Si-Si bonds (transitions between molecular compounds and solids, cyclosilanes, polysilanes, silicides, amorphous hydrogenated silicon), novel silicon-oxygen systems (functionalized sol-gel compounds, spherosiloxanes, siloxene), compounds with highly and low-coordinated silicon, and new spectroscopic and analytical techniques for the characterization of molecular and polymeric silicon compounds.