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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nordén of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Bengt Nordén delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Chemistry! We all associate chemistry with test tubes, stinking…
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Further reading
(press release, information for the public, advanced information, suggested web links to institutions and companies etc), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (advanced) on the Nobel Prize 2000, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Conductive Polymers, M.G.Kanatzidis, Chem. Eng. News 3, p. 36, 1990. Plastic Electronics, D. de Leeuw, Physics World, p. 31,…
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Light-emitting diodes
Just now the most intensive development is aimed at conjugated polymers in their un-doped, semiconductive state. This is because it was discovered ten years ago that some conjugated polymers exhibit electro-luminescence, they glow when a voltages passes through them. Many applications are predicted for luminescent plastic. We shall soon be seeing the first practical…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 jointly to Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”. Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how plastic can be…
morePlastics that imitate metals
Plastics are polymers, molecules formed of many identical units bound to each other like pearls in a necklace. For a polymer to be electrically conductive it must “imitate” a metal – the electrons in the bonds must be freely mobile and not bound fast to the atoms. One condition for this is that the polymer…
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