S.A. ELHAD KASSIM, M.E. ACHOUR, L.C. COSTA
Abstract. Since the discovery of conductive polymer composite in the 70s; different mixing laws developed from the effective medium theory have been proposed to describe the physical behavior of these materials. Two models based by percolation theory have been applied to predict the AC electrical conductivity of carbon black/epoxy composites. McLachlan and Mamunya models show satisfactory results considering the parameters related to these models as adjustable parameter. These adjusted parameters do not vary significantly as a function of frequency.
Keywords
Carbon Black, AC Electrical Conductivity, Percolation, Nanocomposites
Published online 12/10/2016, 5 pages
Copyright © 2016 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: S.A. ELHAD KASSIM, M.E. ACHOUR, L.C. COSTA, ‘Prediction of the AC electrical conductivity of carbon black filled polymer composites’, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp 114-118, 2016
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291197-29
The article was published as article 29 of the book Dielectric Materials and Applications
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