Conducting polymers: past, present, future

In my plenary lecture delivered at the 6th Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry of South-East Europe (RSE-SEE) that was held between June 11 and 15, 2017, in Balatonkenese, Hungary I surveyed the developments in the field of conducting polymers based on my 40 years of experience in this area. It is intended to give an overview including thermodynamical considerations, redox transformations and transport processes, methods of investigation, redox polymers, electropolymerization, characterization, and applications with abundant examples from my research results