Conductive polymers
Polímeros conductores (poliacetileno dopado)
- Date
- 1977 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States (Shirakawa in Tokyo)
- Credited to
- Hideki Shirakawa, Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger
- People
- 👤 Alan G. MacDiarmid1927–2007👤 Alan J. Heeger1936–👤 Hideki Shirakawa1936–2026
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Polyacetylene treated with iodine increases its conductivity by many orders of magnitude, showing that plastics can behave like metals. The origin of organic electronics.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000.
What it led to
- OLEDs
- Organic solar cells
- Plastic transistors and sensors
- Flexible electronics
Built on
Made possible
- Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)1987
- OLED displays
- organic photovoltaics