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Carbon black is incorporated in polymers for permanent electrostatic charge protection, explosion prevention, and polymer applications that require electrical resistivities below 106Ω cm. At the critical volume fraction of the carbon black grade, the carbon black-polymer compound percolates from an electrically insulating to a conducting domain. The capability of a carbon black material to impart electrical conductivity to a polymer compound depends on its ability to establish and maintain in the insulating polymer matrix a conductive network in which the electronic charge carriers move mainly by a tunneling mechanism. Conductive carbon black fillers impart electrical conductivity to polymers at lower critical volume fractions than conventional carbon blacks and hence influence to a lower degree the mechanical properties of the resulting conducting polymer compound. The key property of this family of special carbon black grades is a carbon black high structure, i.e., a...
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Spahr, M.E., Gilardi, R., Bonacchi, D. (2013). Carbon Black for Electrically Conductive Polymer Applications. In: Palsule, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymers and Composites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37179-0_32-1
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