TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: (I) further comprises at least one base catalyst. The base catalyst is sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, calcium hydride, and/or a short chain organic amine, preferably alkylamine and arylamine. The catalyst is UV light. The starting material is siloxene. Preferred Method: The method further comprises sequestering the solubilized nitrogen dioxide being present in the condensate into a harmless nitrate precipitate, to achieve the reduction of nitrogen oxides by 1-99%.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INSTRUMENTATION AND TESTING - Preferred Components: Preferred Components: The article is shaped in a form of a tablet, a bar, or a sphere and has an aspect ratio of 3:1-20:1.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The amino activator is a 3-50 (preferably 3-16) carbon amine. The alkylamine comprises a substituted or unsubstituted mono-, di-, and tri-alkyl amine, hydroxyalkylamine, and a substituted or unsubstituted mono-, di-, and tri-alkenylamine, preferably methylamine, ethylamine, propylamine, isopropylamine, butylamine, tertbutylamine, pentylamine, hexylamine, heptylamine, octylamine, nonylamine, decylamine, undecylamine, dodecylamine, tridecylamine, tetradecylamine, pentadecylamine, hexadecylamine, heptadecylamine, octadecylamine, nonadecylamine, icosylamine, henicosylamine, doicosylamine, triicosylamine and/or tetraicosylamine. The hydrogen generating gel further comprises a quantity of water. The composition comprises the gel comprising an organosilane, or a polysilane starting material and a quantity of a strong base catalyst, where the quantity of the catalyst is 0.1-5 mass% of the water, and the mass ratio of water to the starting material is 1:1-1:4.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Components: The binder polymer is at least one member of the family Carbopol (RTM: Crosslinked polyacrylic acid polymers). The ratio of the binder polymer to siloxene is 0.1-1 mass% of the siloxene and the ratio of the amine activator to siloxene is 0.1-1 mass% of the siloxene.