A Legacy of Conductivity: Remembering Hideki Shirakawa's Pioneering Spirit The passing of Hideki Shirakawa at 90 marks a significant loss for the scientific community, but his groundbreaking work on conductive polymers will continue to shape industries for years to come.
A Disruption in the Making Shirakawa's most notable achievement was the Nobel Prize winning discovery that plastics could conduct electricity.
This finding challenged conventional wisdom by showing that a plastic material could be made electrically conductive.