Shirakawa, MacDiarmid and Heeger received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of conducting polymers. Here we summarize the impact of (semi)conducting polymers on fundamental research, synthetic accessibility at scale, industrial applicability and the future.
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The authors are grateful to Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission (KQTD20140630110339343), AFOSR (FA9550-18-1-0320), and ONR (N00014-20-1-2116).
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Guo, X., Facchetti, A. The journey of conducting polymers from discovery to application. Nat. Mater. 19, 922–928 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0778-5
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