Synthetic Metals, Vol. 125, No. 1

Electrical conductivity of trans-(CH)_x as a function of (AsF₅) dopant concentration. The trans and cis polymer structures are shown in the inset. The image was reproduced from C.K. Chaing, C.R. Fincher, Jr., Y.W. Park, A.J. Heeger, H. Shirakawa, E.J. Louis, S.C. Gau, A.G. MacDiarmid, Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene, Phys. Rev. Lett. 39 (1977) 1098 with permission from The American Physical Society. For details see H. Shirakawa, The discovery of polyacetylene film. The dawning of an era of conducting polymers, pages 3-10, A.G. MacDiarmid, Synthetic metals: a novel role for organic polymers, pages 11-22, and A.J. Heeger, Semiconducting and metallic polymers: the fourth generation of polymeric materials, pages 23-42.

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