1999 Homorary Doctorate, Victoria University of Wellington
1999 American Chemical Society Award in Materials Chemistry
2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2000 Rutherford Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand
2002 Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
2002 Member of the Order of New Zealand
2004 Friendship Award,People’s Republic of China
Chiang, C.K.; Druy, M.A.; Gau, S.C.; Heeger, A.J.; Louis, E.J.; MacDiarmid, A.G.; Park, Y.W.; Shirakawa, H., ”Synthesis of Highly Conducting Films of Derivatives of Polyacetylene, (CH)x,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 100, 1013 (1978).
Chiang, J.-C., and MacDiarmid, A.G., ”Polyaniline’: Protonic Acid Doping of the Emeraldine Form to the Metallic Regime,” Synth. Met., 13, 193 (1986).
MacDiarmid, A.G.; Chiang, J.-C.; Richter, A.F.; Epstein, A.J., ”Polyaniline: A New Concept in Conducting Polymers,” Synth. Met., 18, 285 (1987).
MacDiarmid, A.G., Yang, L.S., Huang, W.-S., and Humphrey, B.D., ”Polyaniline: Electrochemistry and Application to Rechargeable Batteries”. Synth. Met., 18, 393 (1987).
Kaner, R.B.; MacDiarmid, A.G., ”Plastics That Conduct Electricity,” Scientific American, 106 (February 1988).
MacDiarmid, A.G.; Epstein, A.J., ” ’Synthetic Metals’: A Novel Role for Organic Polymers,” Macromol. Chem., 51, 11 (1991).
MacDiarmid, A.G.; Epstein, A.J., ”Science and Technology of Conducting Polymers,” in Frontiers of Polymer Research, P.N. Prasad and J.K. Nigam, Eds., Plenum Press, New York, 1991, p. 259.
Wang, Z.H.; Li, C.; Scherr, E.M.; MacDiarmid, A.G.; Epstein, A.J., ”Three Dimensionality of ’Metallic’ States in Conducting Polymers: Polyaniline,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 66, 1745 (1991).
MacDiarmid, A.J.; Epstein, A.J., ”The Concept of Secondary Doping as Applied to Polyaniline,” Synth. Met., 65, 103 (1994).
MacDiarmid, A.G., Zhou, Y., Feng, J., Furst, G.T., and Shedlow, A.M., ”Isomers and Isomerization Processes in Poly-Anilines,” Proc. ANTEC ’99, Soc. Plastics Engr., 2, 1563 (1999).
MacDiarmid, A.G., Norris, I.D., Jones, J.W.E., El-Sherif, M.A., Yuan, J., Han, B. and Ko, F.K., ”Polyaniline Based Chemical Transducers with Sub-micron Dimensions,” Polymeric Mat. Sci. & Eng., 83, 544 (2000).
Norris, I.D., Shaker, M.M., Ko, F.K., and MacDiarmid, A.G., ”Electrostatic Fabrication of Ultrafine Conducting Fibers: Polyaniline/Polyethylene Oxide Blends,” Synth. Met., 114, 2 (2000).
MacDiarmid, A.G., Jones, J.W.E., Norris, I.D., Gao, J., Johnson, J.A.T., Pinto, N.J., Hone, J., Han, B., Ko, F.K., Okuzaki, H., and Llaguno, M., ”Electrostatically-Generated Nanofibers of Electronic Polymers,” Synth. Met., 119, 27-30 (2001).
Shimano, J.Y., and MacDiarmid, A.G., ”Phase Segregation in Polyaniline: A Dynamic Block Copolymer,” Synth. Met., 119, 365-366 (2001).
Wang, P.C., and MacDiarmid, A.G., ”Dependency of Properties of In Situ Deposited Polypyrrole Films on Dopant Anion and Substrate Surface,” Synth. Met., 119, 267-268 (2001).
Hohnholz, D., and MacDiarmid, A.G., ”Line Patterning of Conducting Polymers: New Horizons for Inexpensive, Disposable Electronic Devices,” Synth. Met., 121, 1327-1328 (2001).
Premvardhan, L., Peteanu, L.A., Wang, P.-C., and MacDiarmid, A.G., ”Electronic Properties of the Conducting Form of Polyaniline from Electroabsorption Measurements,” Synth. Met., 116, 157-161 (2001).
MacDiarmid, A.G. “Twenty-five Years of Conducting Polymers”. Chem. Comm., 1-4 (2003).
Tanner, D.B.; Doll, G.L.; Rao, A.M.; Eklund, P.C.; Arbuckle, G.A.; MacDiarmid, A.G. “Optical properties of potassium-doped polyacetylene”. Synth. Met., 141, 75-79 (2004).
Hohnholz, D.; Okuzaki,H.; MacDiarmid, A.G. “Plastic electronic devices through line patterning of conducting polymers”. Adv. Funct. Mater., 15, 51-56 (2005).
Venancio, E.C; Wang, P-C.; MacDiarmid, A.G. “The Azanes: A Class of Material Incorporating Nano/Micro Self-Assembled Hollow Spheres Obtained By Aqueous Oxidative Polymerization of Aniline”. Synth. Met., 156, 357 (2006).
MacDiarmid, A.G.; Venancio, E.C. “Agrienergy (Agriculture/Energy): What Does the Future Hold?”. Experimental Biology and Medicine., 231, 1212 (2006).
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