TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The group IB element is copper. The group IIIA element is aluminum, gallium, or indium. The group VIA element is selenium or sulfur. The inert gas is nitrogen, helium or neon. Preferred Method: The reflux temperature is 180-300 degrees C.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Components: The monoamine compounds are selected from alkyl polyalkylene glycol amines, bis(methyl triethylene glycol)amine, butyl triethylene glycol amine, lauryl polypropylene glycol amine, methyl tripropylene glycol amine, phenol polypropylene glycol amine, polypropylene glycol amine, bis(methyl tripropylene glycol)amine, N-methyl methyl propylene glycol amine, methyl polypropylene glycol amine, bis(methyl polypropylene glycol)amine, tris(methyl diglycol)amine, methyl polyalkylene glycol amine with random or blockwise distribution of the ethylene glycol, and propylene glycol units. The diamine compounds are selected from triethylene glycol diamine, tripropylene glycol diamine, polyethylene glycol diamine, polypropylene glycol diamine, polyalkylene glycol diamine with random or blockwise distribution of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol units, butanediol polyalkylene glycol diamine, and resorcinol polyalkylene glycol diamine. The triamine compounds are selected from glycerol polyalkylene glycol triamine with random or blockwise distribution of the ethylene glycol and propylene glycol unit, bis(triethylene glycol amine)amine, and bis(polyalkylene glycol amine)amines. EXAMPLE - A 500 ml glass reactor was prepared with a magnetic stirrer under the atmosphere of nitrogen for 30 minutes. A mixture of copper metal powders (15 g), indium powders (19.2 g), gallium (4.8 g) and selenium powders (40.2 g) (all the elements were in 99.99% purity) was added into the glass reactor, where the gallium was preheated at 40-50 degrees C for 20-30 minutes to the melting state before dropping into the reactor. Then JEFFAMINE D-230 (RTM: polyetheramine) (300 g), with difunctional, primary amine with an average molecular weight of about 230, was added into the reactor as well. The polyetheramine and the mixture were mixed completely for 2-3 hours to remove the inherent oxygen and water vapor. The mixed polyetheramine and the elements, including copper, indium, gallium and selenium, were heated to reflux at 230-250 degrees C for 40 hours. Then the reactor was cooled down to the room temperature and black liquid products of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) were generated, and 10 g of all the collected black liquid products were stirred with ethanol (200 g) for 2 hours and then transferred into a filter paper. The leach was washed with pure water (200 ml) and ethanol (200 ml) and then dried at 40 degrees C under a vacuum about 0.1 torr for 10 hours to obtain the final product, CIGS black powder (2 g).