Alan MacDiarmid
1927 – 2007 · New Zealand · Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000
Conductive polymers — flexible screens and printed electronics.
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- Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 – 1907 · Chemistry
Conducting polymers exploit periodic-table logic about conjugation and doping.
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