Abstract
Huge metals are discharged into the environment for their wide applications in semiconductor, panel, textile dyeing, printing inks, wood preservation, paints, etc. resulting in environmental pollution. Usually, metals exist in metal ions forms in aqueous environment. Therefore, the strategy based on metal ions reduction and consequently precipitation was often used for metal ions removal. In this work, the applicability of polymerized aromatic amines for the removal of copper and palladium from various water samples has been investigated. Besides, the effect of mass transfer, concentrations of reactants and the addition of the initiator on the morphology of polymerized aromatic amines was studied. With using different aniline analogues as the monomers, we could tune the nitrogen/carbon composition. In the meantime, we can get a high capacity adsorbent for metals by increasing the amount of amines, imines and surface area. Key words: polymerized aromatic amines、surface area、amines and imines