Silicon glycan and method of preparing same

A silicon glycan having the formula:

• where each A is an independently selected saccharide moiety;
• each W is an independently selected beta-amino alcohol moiety;
• each Y is an independently selected organosilicon moiety;
• each R is independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl groups, ether moieties, amine moieties, and H;
• each R1 is independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl groups and H;
• each Z is an independently selected moiety having the formula —(CtH2tO)u—, where subscript t is independently selected from 2 to 4 in each moiety indicated by subscript u and subscript u is from 1 to 50;
• each subscript p is independently 0 or 1;
• subscripts x and y are each independently from ≥0 to <1;
• subscript z is from >0 to 1, with the proviso that x+y+z=1;
• and moieties indicated by subscripts x, y, and z may be in randomized or block form in the silicon glycan.