TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Group: Functional groups (A,B) are amine or acid group. The inorganic or organic material is alkylene diamine, or macromolecular network of formula (-Si(R1)(R2)-0-)m, or Si(R1)(X)3 or Si(R1)(R2)(X)2, where R1,R2 are alkyl or aryl group, m is 2-10000 and X is halogen or alkoxy group. The functionalized compound is selected from dye molecules and metal-containing antimicrobial agents. The functional group (I) is a carboxyl functional group selected from carboxylic acid group, carboxylic acid ester group and/or carboxylic acid amide group.Preferred Method: The inorganic or organic molecules are further polymerized under conditions effective to assemble the inorganic or organic molecules into macromolecular networks. EXAMPLE - A piece of polytetrafluoroethylene-co-hexafluoropropylene was wrapped around itself to form a loose fitting coil which was placed in a round bottom flask. Vanadium oxychlorate (1 ml) was vacuum-transferred into the flask. The flask was closed and heated to 75degreesC under vacuum so that gas phase of vanadium oxychlorate filled the entire volume of the flask for 1 hour. The flask was removed from heat and its temperature lowered to room temperature. Vanadium oxychlorate vacuum-transferred off the polymer. The flask was opened to ambient air. When the flask was opened, the polymer was transparent within a few minutes, turned yellow orange and reached darkest level after few hours. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy indicated the formation of highly oxidized vanadium complex. The obtained composite was placed in a stainless steel reactor which was charged with oxygen (4 atm) and sulfur dioxide (1 atm). The vessel was heated to 70degreesC for 24 hours. Then, the vessel was opened and polymer was removed. Calibrated amount of deionized water was added to the vessel to convert sulfur trioxide formed during catalytic reaction of sulfuric acid. Subsequent analysis of the metallated polymer showed no detectable loss of vanadium pentoxide which indicated the stability of vanadium pentoxide macromolecular network within polymer film during catalytic procedure. The composite had excellent heterogeneous catalytic property and ultraviolet light shielding property.