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Electro-conductive plastic? What is it and what are its properties? Where might one find it?

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Electro-conductive plastics are polymers that have a significant electrical conductance. Alan MacDiarmid, U. of Pennsylvania, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in year 2000 for the discovery and characterization of polyacetylene polymers. A web search on "polyacetylene" is a good place to start researching the whole area of electroconductive polymers.

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