“…Bands responsible for CH vibrations are very well visible on the xerogel spectra-Si-(CH 3 )x bending vibrations are visible at 750-860 cm -1 range, and the Si-CH 3 and Si-C 2 H 5 stretching vibrations are visible at 1273 cm -1 (vs) and 1413 cm -1 (va) along with stretching vibrations of C-H groups at 2971 (va) and 2913 cm -1 (va) [7-9, 18, 20, 28, 29, 33, 34, 43, 45]. For A0 sample also 2800 cm -1 (vs) C-H band is visible [7,28,30]. The Si-OH stretching bands at 3600-3800 cm -1 along with approx.…”