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The journey of conducting polymers from discovery to application

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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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Fig. 1: Structures, synthesis and properties of CPs.
Fig. 2: Applications of conducting polymers.
Fig. 3: Ongoing fundamental studies and exploration of applications.

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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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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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  2. Flexterra Corporation, Skokie, IL, USA

    Antonio Facchetti

  3. Department of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Antonio Facchetti

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