The Discovery and Development of Conducting Polymers

Heeger, Alan J. (1923- ). Awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 jointly with Alan G.MacDiannid and Hideki Shirakawa for the discovery and development of conductive polymers. He performs his research at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas. 

Alan J. Heeger (1936- ), United States, Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927-2007), United States and New Zealand, and Hideki Shirakawa (1936- ), Japan. For the discovery and development of conductive polymers. ... 

In 2000, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery and development of conducting polymers, and the conversion of polyacetylene to a conducting material was integral in this effort [151]. Oligomeric polyacetylene has been produced via ADMET polymerization of 2,4-hexadiene with both Schrock s tungsten and molybdenum catalysts [63a]. Similarly, oligomers were also formed by ADMET polymerization of 2,4,6-octatriene, although no polymer resulted from the reaction of either 1,3-butadiene or 1,3,5-hexadiene. 

Functional polymers appeared in the second half of the twentieth century. Although polyaniline was first described in the mid-nineteenth century by Henry Letheby and polypyrrole derivatives were reported to be electrically conducting in 1963 by B.A. Bolto et al. (1963), substantial progress was not made with intrinsically conducting polymers until the pioneering work of Hideki Shirakawa, Alan J. Heeger, and Alan MacDiarmid who reported similar high conductivity in oxidized iodine-doped polyacetylene in 1977 (Shirakawa 1977). For this research, they were awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of conductive polymers. ... 

A major development was the discovery and development of conducting polymers by Heeger, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa in 1977 (Shirakawa et al., 1977). Heeger, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2000 for their work (NobelPrize.org, 2014). 

Heeger, Alan J., University of California, Alan G. MacDiarmid, University of Pennsylvania, Hideki Shirakawa, University of Tsukuba For the discovery and development of Conductive Polymers. 

Shirakawa of Tsukuba share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of conductive polymers... 

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