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Silsesquioxanes are compounds of formula (RSiO1.5)n, in which each silicon is bound to three bridging oxygens and to one organic group [1]. The most studied member is the cubic octamer, a cage of eight silicon atoms at the corners of a cube with oxygen along the edges and the organic substituent projecting outward [1]. The rigid inorganic core and the tunable organic shell make the molecule a hybrid building block, and the corner groups set solubility and compatibility with a matrix [2]. Because the cage carries one to eight reactive groups, it enters a material as a pendant unit, as a crosslinker or as the core of a star-shaped polymer [1]. Hydrolysis and condensation of trifunctional silanes give the cage, while incomplete condensation yields open or ladder structures [3].