The choice is motivated by the important scientific position that the field has achieved and the consequences in terms of practical applications and of interdisciplinary development between chemistry and physics. ... Today conductive plastics are being developed for many uses, such as in corrosion inhibitors, compact capacitors, antistatic coating, electromagnetic shielding of computers, and in "smart- windows that can vary the amount of light they allow to pass, etc. ... However, polyacetylene was the conductive polymer that actually launched this new field of research (Refs 1- 4). ...

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Although individually these scientists are engaged in many separate fields of science (e.g., Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics), collectively they're doing just two types or broad categories of research - basic and applied. Basic research expands the knowledge base in a field of science. ...

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