In the 1970s, Shirakawa, along with American scientists Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, found a way to make plastics that can conduct electricity — a discovery that won them the Nobel Prize in ...

Around this time, Sirigen designed and optimized a novel class of dyes derived from the chemistry behind Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of ...