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...Alan J. Heege (United States), Alan G. MacDiarmid (United States), Hideki Shirakawa (Japan...
...WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: Scientists once spent a lot of time explaining why plastic did not conduct electricity. Heege, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa, however, won their Nobel for proving that plastics (or polymers) can be manipulated into a conductive state. The Nobel judges call the discovery critical not only to chemists and physicists, but also to ordinary folk; the conductive polymers are already in use on cell phone displays; in photo labs, where anti-static substances are applied to film; and in electromagnetic radiation shields on computer screens...
...technology's other possible applications range from wristwatches to utility power generators. The invention could also be valuable to solar technology because it can store large capacities of energy during periods of darkness, MacDiarmid said...
...most exciting commercial application of the battery would be the electric car, MacDiarmid said, adding that it could be "the technological breakthrough the industry needs...
Research conducted at UPenn indicates that the rechargeable plastic battery could be ten times more powerful and much lighter and long-lasting than a comparable lead-acid battery, the type most widely used today, Alan MacDiarmid, professor of Chemistry, said yesterday...