Electric conducting plastic!

[Target]

Guess I have been living under a rock or something, but I wasn't aware that someone had figured out a way to make plastic electrically conductive until I read this about the men who won the nobel prize for it:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001010/sc/sweden_nobel_chemistry.html

Pretty cool stuff.

After reading the story, it got me to wondering about the applications it hasn't been used in yet!

[Wiruz]

That story along with some other (among one i've posted) articles, has made me realize that we actually are starting to live in the future... - Finally

~Wiruz

[DrCorvette]

Working in the electrical industry, I've heard of conductive plastics for some time.

The giant step here is that it will insulate and conduct at the same time, huh?

quote
" conduct electricity as well as insulate.``that a thin film of polyacetylene could be oxidized with iodine vapor, increasing its electrical conductivity a billion times, "

wierd, we have some welding lenses that are "Plastic Coated PhotoSensitive" that will auto darken when exposed to welding flash.
The adjustments allow a lens factor of 5 thru 14 shade. A 14 is the minimum that you can look at the sun through.

Thanks to the old Wise One, Target, here's another advancement mentioned in the article->>
Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian-American, won last year's chemistry prize for pioneering the use of rapid-fire laser flashes that illuminate the motion of atoms in a molecule.

I feel so very stupid at times http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
DrVette

[Target]

LOL Dr...... just when you think you know quite a bit, some Nobel Prize winner comes along and bursts your bubble!!