“…Owing to its plentiful merits, such as electric insulation, anti-high and -low temperatures, chemical inertia, physiological inertia, low surface tension, and water-repellent and moisture-resistant performance, silicone oil and its derivative products have been extensively applied to electricity, light industry, construction, and other fields ( Chen et al, 2009 ; Mei et al, 2014 ; Aziz et al, 2018 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ). Currently, infrared (IR) spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) are the powerful techniques to characterize silicone oil ( Semchyschyn et al, 2000 ; Chmelik et al, 2001 ; Ren et al, 2019 ; Liu et al, 2021 ). GPC is a popular technique to determine the average molecular weight of polymers, but it is not suitable for the analysis of oligomeric hydroxyl silicone oils ( Montaudo et al, 1995 ).…”