ABSTRACT
The production of selective metal ion sequestering and separations materials is a growing ¢eld with broad application and critical importance. Industry requires vast quantities of metals and generates tons of metal wastes. Nuclear energy production and past weapons production facilities have created unique challenges in the area of metal ion separations.Ultimately, technologymust reach a point where all metal containing waste streams are treated as recoverable metal resources.Metal ion selective molecularly imprinted materials may be the means to realize this goal. An additional application of metal ion imprinted polymers is as sensors.The ability to detect a speci¢c metal ion in a complex matrix is keenly appreciated.
