title: The Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting Polymers (Nobel Lecture) Copyright((c)) The Nobel Foundation 2001. We thank the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, for permission to print this lecture.
abstract: This lecture is not directly related to our discovery and development of conducting polymers to which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded. However, I would like to present my previous work that I had carried out just before we reached the discovery of chemical doping. I hope that this will be of use and deepen your understandings by learning what had happened before and how we reached the idea of chemical doping.
authors.affiliation: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577 (Japan).
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shirakawa