Entrepreneurs: Newsmakers
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Tech from Plextronics Could Replace Lightbulbs, ’Do Away With iPads’
In 1990, Richard McCullough was pondering a new way to make conductive polymers so that they would transfer more electricity in electronic applications. McCullough, then a chemistry professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, knew this type of linked molecule was hard to manufacture cheaply on a commercial scale. He thought joining the ends of a chain to form a collapsible loop might solve both problems.
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