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Nobel chemist who discovered conductive plastics dies at 90
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— Sep 3, 2026
Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Hideki Shirakawa, famed for discovering and developing conductive polymers that enabled polymer electronics, has died at age 90. His work with MacDiarmid and Heeger overturned the belief that plastics cannot conduct electricity and spurred advances in flexible electronics and everyday devices.
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