In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation. — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth. — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point. — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics. — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible.… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
