Patent ID: 7157052

Claim:
A carbosilane polymer having the general structure: wherein n is an integer greater than 1; wherein at least one of R 1 and R 2 is a pendant group having at least one element independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, and aryl groups, or combinations thereof, and having at least one phenol, halogen substituted phenol group, or aryl hydrocarbon with a halogen-substituted alcohol substituent attached thereto; wherein any said R 1 and R 2 aryl groups are attached to said [Si—X—] n either directly or through a short hydrocarbon chain; wherein any remaining said R 1 or R 2 group is a hydrocarbon or carbosilane pendant group; wherein X is a divalent polymer backbone component selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbons carbosilanes, hydrocarbons with halogen substituted alcohol substituents, hydrocarbons with halogen substituted phenol substituents carbosilanes with halogen substituted alcohol substituents, carbosilanes with halogen substituted phenol substituents, and combinations thereof; and wherein Z 1 and Z 2 are end groups independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkyl silanes, aryl silanes, hydroxyl, silicon hydride, alkoxides, phenols, halogen substituted alcohols, halogen substituted phenols, organosilyl, and combinations thereof.