Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric Materials (Nobel Lecture)

By courtesy of:
Alan J. Heeger
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 2591 – 2611
and the other two lectures:
The Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting Polymers (Nobel Lecture)
Hideki Shirakawa
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 2574 – 2580
and
“Synthetic Metals”: A Novel Role for Organic Polymers (Nobel Lecture)
Alan G. MacDiarmid
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 2581 – 2590
and their first two papers about conductive polymers:
Synthesis of electronically conducting organic polymers: halogen derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH)x
H. Shirakawa, F. J. Louis, A. G. MacDiarmid, C. K. Chiang, A. J. Heeger
J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1977, 578
and
Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene

C. K. Chiang, C. R. Fincher, Jr. , Y. W. Park, A. J. Heeger, H. Shirakawa, B. J. Louis, S. C. Gau, A. G. MacDiarmid,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 1977, 39, 1098