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Polyacetylene

Polyacetylene is a conjugated polymer, distinguished by a linear backbone of alternating single and double carbon-carbon bonds, that exhibits intrinsic electrical conductivity upon doping and serves as a foundational prototype for conductive organic polymers.

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Solitons in Polyacetylene

W. P. Su, J. R. Schrieffer, Alan J. Heeger · Physical Review Letters · 1979 · 6.8K citations

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Solitons in conducting polymers

Alan J. Heeger, Steven A. Kivelson, J. R. Schrieffer et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1988 · 3.8K citations

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Synthesis of electrically conducting organic polymers: halogen derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH) x

Hideki Shirakawa, E. J. Louis, Alan G. MacDiarmid et al. · Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1977 · 3.8K citations

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Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene

C. K. Chiang, C. R. Fincher, Y. W. Park et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1977 · 3.3K citations

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Soliton excitations in polyacetylene

W. P. Su, J. R. Schrieffer, Alan J. Heeger · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1980 · 3.1K citations

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  1. HS
    Hideki Shirakawa

    University of Tsukuba, Japan

    98 publications · 15.9K citations

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    Ben Zhong Tang

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China

    84 publications · 6.1K citations

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  3. AG
    Alan G. MacDiarmid

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    61 publications · 15.5K citations

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  4. AJ
    Alan J. Heeger

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    60 publications · 26.3K citations

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  5. TM
    Toshio Masuda

    Kyoto University, Japan

    99 publications · 4.9K citations

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  1. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

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  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

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    259 publications

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  3. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    40 h-index

    368 publications

    24.1K citations

  4. University of Hong Kong

    Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

    40 h-index

    308 publications

    22.2K citations

  5. University of Tsukuba

    Tsukuba, Japan

    38 h-index

    231 publications

    12.6K citations

  6. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    34 h-index

    165 publications

    29.5K citations

  7. Tokyo Institute of Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

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    137 publications

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  8. University of Namur

    Namur, Belgium

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  1. Macromolecules

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  3. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 82 publications · 8.2K citations

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  4. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 145 publications · 10.9K citations

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  5. Synthetic Metals

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