“…They have been successfully applied to the extraction of metal ions (e.g. Au(III) [6,7], Pt(IV) [8], Pd(II) [9], Co(II) [10], Hg(II) [11], Cd(II) [12,13], Cu(II) [14], Zn(II) [15], Pb(II) [16], and Cs(I), Sr(II), Co(II) from radioactive nuclear waste [17][18][19]) from various aqueous media using commercial extraction agents as carriers. A limited number of applications involving the extraction and separation of non-metallic inorganic (e.g.…”