The Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting Polymers (Nobel Lecture)

This lecture is not directly related to our discovery and development of conducting polymers to which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded. However, I would like to present my previous work that I had carried out just before we reached the discovery of chemical doping. I hope that this will...

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Published in:Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2001-07, Vol.40 (14), p.2574-2580
Main Author: Shirakawa, Hideki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
chemical doping
conducting materials
Nobel lecture
polyacetylene
Ziegler-Natta
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Summary:This lecture is not directly related to our discovery and development of conducting polymers to which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded. However, I would like to present my previous work that I had carried out just before we reached the discovery of chemical doping. I hope that this will be of use and deepen your understandings by learning what had happened before and how we reached the idea of chemical doping. The science of serendipity: the accidental use of a hypercatalytic amount of a Ziegler–Natta catalyst gave polyacetylene films, such as the one shown in the transmission electron micrograph. This “mishap” opened the way to new conducting polymers, (legal) doping, and the award of the Nobel prize for chemistry.
ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/1521-3773(20010716)40:14<2574::AID-ANIE2574>3.0.CO;2-N