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Scientific American

July 1, 1995

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Plastics Get Wired

By tailoring the electrical properties of conducting polymers, researchers hope to render electronics a bit more organic

By Philip Yam

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Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com, responsible for the overall news content online. He began working at the magazine in 1989, first as a copyeditor and then as a features editor specializing in physics. He is the author of The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting and Other Prion Diseases.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 273 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “Plastics Get Wired” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 273 No. 1 (), p. 82
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0795-82
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