box Navigate to: Summary- Alan Heeger- Alan MacDiarmid- Hideki Shirakawa Prize announcement Press release Popular information Advanced information Award ceremony speech Award ceremony video Banquet video Contents: Introduction » Plastics that imitate metals A surprise with a silver lining… » … and a Nobel medal in gold » Doping raises molecule performance » Brilliant applications » Light-emitting diodes » Solar cells » Further reading » These pages are based on material from the 2000 Nobel Poster for Chemistry. Credits and references for the poster » Go to the top of the page