“…Silicon-containing polymers have been attracting much interest because of their unique thermal, mechanical, and optoelectrical properties as well as the pyrolytic behavior, and various kinds of siliconbased polymers have been widely studied for about 30 Several types of thermally stable polymers such as polysiloxanes, polysilazanes, poly-(silarylene)s, and their copolymers, have already been developed. Polysiloxanes and their derivatives reported so far include poly( diarylsiloxane)s,'-6 poly(phenylsilsesquioxane)~~g silarylene-siloxane polymers,10-12 poly(oxyarylenesiI~xane)s,~~J~ polysiloxanes with a ring structure in the repeating units.…”