Metal Containing Polymeric Systems formatIsbn:Softcover 9781461594178 (Naturgeschichte der organischen Arten oder formatIsbn:Hardcover 9780792341277 (Naturgeschichte der organischen Arten oder der genealogischen Individuen zweiter Ordnung information is provided on incidence Some of these materials could act as semi conducters and pos sessed one or two dimensional conductivity Research on metal containing polymers began in the early 1960's when several workers found that vinyl ferrocene and other vinylic transition metal u com plexes would undergo polymerization under the same conditions as conventional organic monomers to form high polymers which incorporated a potentially reactive metal as an integral part of the polymer structures