TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The salt is silver trifluoromethane sulfonate, sodium thiocyanate, sodium trifluoromethane sulfonate, potassium trifluoromethanesulfonyl imide, sodium (trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, barium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, lead bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide or calcium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide. The salt comprises lithium comprising lithium thiocyanate, lithium dicyanamide, lithium perchlorate, lithium tetrafluoroborate, lithium hexafluoro arsenate, lithium hexafluorophosphate, lithium trifluoromethane sulfonate, bistrifluoromethylsulfonyl imide, lithium tris(trifluoromethane sulfonate) carbide, lithium bisperfluoroethylsulfonyl imide, lithium alkyl fluorophosphates, lithium oxalatoborate, as well as other lithium bis(chelato)borates having five to seven membered rings, lithium tris(pentafluoroethyl) trifluorophosphate, lithium tris(trifluoromethyl) trifluorophosphate and/or lithium bis(oxalato)borate.s = 1-100..    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preparation (Disclosed): Preparation of (I) comprises reacting a poly(methylvinylsiloxane) of formula (CH3-Si-((CH3)2)-O-((Si-(CH3-(C=CH2)-O)m)-Si-(CH3)3) with a hydrosilane compound of formula (HSi(CH3)2-R) in the presence of a metal catalyst to give a polymer of formula ((CH3-Si-((CH3)2)-O-((Si-(CH3-(CH2CH2-Si-(CH3)2-R-O)m)-Si-(CH3)3)-R) (representative of (I)). Preferred Components: (I) further comprises a methyl group or (R-Si-(CH3)2)- group at each end of the siloxane backbone. The polysiloxane chain has structures of formula -(Si-((CH3)3)-O-((Si-CH3-CH2-CH2-Si-((CH3)2))-O-Si((CH3)2)-((CH2)3)-O-((CH2)2-O)s-CH3)-O)t-(Si-(CH3)3)), -(Si-((CH3)3)-O-((Si-CH3-CH2-CH2-Si-((CH3)2)-((CH2)3)-O-((CH2)2-O)s-CH3)-O)t-(Si-(CH3)3))) or -(Si-((CH3)3)-O-((Si-CH3-CH2-CH2-Si-((CH3)2))-((CH2)2)-O-((CH2)2-O)s-CH3)-O)t-(Si-(CH3)3)). Preferred Definitions:    R = oligoethylene-oxide-containing group comprising -(O-(CH2CH2O)i-CH3), -((CH2)3O-(CH2CH2O)i-CH3), -(OSi(CH3)2-(CH2)3O-(CH2CH2O)i-CH3), -(OSi(CH3)2-OSi(CH3)2-(CH2)3O-(CH2CH2O)i-CH3)), -(O-(CH2CH2CH2)iCH3), -((CH2)3O-(CH2CH2CH2)iCH3), -(OSi(CH3)2-(CH2)3O-(CH2CH2CH2O)i-CH3), -(OSi(CH3)2-OSi(CH3)2-(CH2)3O-(CH2CH2CH2O)i-CH3)), -(O-(CH2CH2O)i-(CH2CH2CH2O)i)-CH3, -(OSi(CH3)2-OSi(CH3)2-OSi(CH3)2-(CH2)3O-(CH2CH2O)i-CH3) or -X-(CH2-(O-(CH2CH2O)i-CH3)-CH2-O-(CH2CH2O)i-CH3), a dioxolanone group of formula (aa), substituted benzonitrile group of formula (bb) or (cc), -((CH2)n-CN), substituted pyrrolidinone group of formula (dd) or perfluoroalkyl group of -((CH2)r(CF2)n-F);    X = -(OSi((CH3)2-(CH2CH2))-, -(CH2CH2)-, ((CH2)3OCH2)- or -(OSi(CH3)2-(CH2)3OCH2))-;    i = 1-8;    Q1 = -((OSi(CH3)2-(CH2CH2))-, -(CH2CH2)-, -((CH2)3OCH2)-, -(Si((CH3)2-(CH2)3OCH2)-, -(OCH2)- or -(OCH2CH2)-;    n = 1-10; and    p, r = 1-8 (where only one R group is included in the polymer, only two different R groups are included in the polymer or only three different R groups are included in the polymer).    EXAMPLE - Poly(vinylmethylsiloxane) (0.78 g), a silane compound of formula (H-Si-((CH3)2)-((CH2)3)-O-(((CH2)2)-O)3-CH3) (3.1 g), toluene (5 ml) and platinum divinyltetramethyl disiloxane complex in xylene were mixed together. The resulting solution was heated at 60-70 degrees C for 24 hours and then cooled. Solvent was evaporated followed by vacuum drying for 48 hours to give -(Si-((CH3)3)-O-((Si-CH3-CH2-CH2-Si-((CH3)2)-((CH2)3)-O-((CH2)2-O)3-CH3)-O)t-(Si-(CH3)3)).