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 ...

But my interest in the organics arose later, after attending a seminar by Alan Heeger in 1981. He was talking about transport in conducting polymers, namely trans-polyacetylene (on which he was ...

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 ...