“…[1] Effective metal-ion adsorbents have been prepared by the immobilization of N-and S-containing groups onto the surface of various substrates, including silica gel, [2,3] zirconia, [4] carbon, [5,6] polymers [7] and, most recently, mesoporous silica. [8][9][10][11][12] However, the selectivities of these materials are usually unsatisfactory because the interaction between metal ions and these typical functional groups is a common acid-base interaction and a number of different metal ions have the ability to bind with them. In addition to the acid-base interaction, the oxidationreduction (O-R) interaction between absorbents and metal ions has been found for several absorbents, such as poly- (1,8-diaminonaphthalene) microparticles, [13,14] sulfanyl absorbents, [7,15,16] tannin gel, [17] crosslinked lignophenol gel, [18,19] and active carbon.…”