TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Method: The liquid precursor is treated by the resulting excited and/or unstable gas species in a container.Preferred Component: The powder and/or discrete gel particles comprises an organosilicone resin of formula (R'3SiO1/2)w(R'2SiO2/2)x(R'SiO3/2)p(SiO4/2)z. The powder and/or discrete gel particles comprises an organic resin.R' = alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alcohol, H, OH, amino, aldehyde alkyl halide, alkyne amido, carbamate, urethane, biochemical groups, biochemical species organic salt based group, carboxylic acid groups and their derivatives such as acid anhydride groups, organic groups containing boron atoms and phosphorus, or sulfur containing groups such as mercapto and sulfido groups;w+x+p+z = 1;w, x = lesser than 0.9;p+z = greater than 0.1.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - Preferred Component: The mechanism to generate excited and/or unstable gas species is an electrical discharge apparatus. The container is a fluidized bed (20, 54) or a circulating bed. The introducing mechanism comprises an atomizer.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Component: The liquid and/or gas precursor is an organometallic compound of titanium, zirconium, iron, aluminum, indium, and/or tin. The liquid and/or gas precursor is an organometalloid compound of germanium or silicon. The organometalloid compound comprises organosilane and an inorganic silane where the inorganic groups are selected from halogeno, hydrogeno, and/or hydroxyl groups. The organosilane is a functionalized silane containing alkenyl, aryl, H, OH, amino groups, aldehyde groups alkyl halide groups, alkyne groups amido groups, carbamate groups, urethane groups, organic salts, carboxylic acid groups and their derivatives, heterorganic groups containing boron atoms and/or phosphorus atoms mercapto and sulfido groups; grafted or covalently bonded amino acids and/or their derivatives, grafted or covalently bonded proteins, enzymes or DNA. The organometalloid compound is an organopolysiloxane having a viscosity of 0.65-1000 mPas.Preferred Property: The powder and/or discrete gel particles have a particle size of from 1-2000 micro m. EXAMPLE - Liquid polymethylhydrogensiloxane having a degree of polymerization of 23(M0.11 D-H0.89) was continuously fed via a nebulization nozzle into a fluidized bed plasma reactor and was fluidized in contact with excited species generated by the plasma assembly for 35 minutes in the presence of a reactive gas mixture comprising 400 ppm oxygen in 250 L/minute of nitrogen. The power delivered to the plasma source of the post discharge atmospheric plasma is 2200 W. A white powder was deposited on the surface of a polycarbonate support utilized to collect the resulting powder and/or discrete gel particle product. The white powder was recovered and analyzed. The powder was found to have a general formula of M0.04D0.01D-H0.68T0.21T-H lesser than 0.01Q0.06. Scanning electron microscopy showed the formation of initial particles in the range of few tens of nm that aggregated into larger particles in the range of few tens of microns.