ABSTRACT
In recent years, polymer-metal complexes have attracted interest in many scientic and technological elds, such as bioinorganic industry [1], wastewater treatment [2], pollution control [3], hydrometallurgy [4], preconcentration [5], anionic polyelectrolyte hydrogels [6], and cation-exchange resins [7]. They are an important class of new materials due to the coupling of the chemical, optical, and electronic properties of the metal moiety to those of the polymer. Originating whether from either natural or synthetic sources, the polymeric materials that possess the ability to create complexes with different metal ions have attracted a great deal of attention recently and are commonly considered as a new frontier in material systems [8-10]. The incorporation of metals into a nonmetallic matrix component is a key step in the functional behavior of many industrially important applications such as heterogeneous catalysts and ion exchange resins. In all of these cases, on the other hand, the properties of metal-containing surfaces are inuenced by the binding of the metal atoms to the surrounding matrix and the chemical state of the metal centers, such as the type of complexation and the possibility for charge transfer. In addition, the
7.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 201 7.2 Functionalized PSFs for Special Applications .............................................203 7.3 Deposition of Metal Nanoparticles and Nano-Layers on Modied PSFs ....204
