ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the fillers possessing carbonyl groups have been mentioned as structural elements which, in some conditions, are able to conduct electric current. The latter are represented by elements, such as metals and electrically conductive types of carbon black as well as by carbon-graphite fibres, by graphite, by derivatives of the hollow ball-like molecules of fullerenes, and even by polymers themselves, provided they consist of chains of carbon atoms. Despite the impressive recent success in electrically conductive polymer synthesis, it is polymers but metals that possess the highest electric conductivity. Metal fillers in a polymer matrix form current-conductive structures. Naturally, such structures should be characterised by direct contacts between metal particles, or by their approach, at least, to within a distance, at which transfer of current carriers from one particle to another is possible. Linear dependence of electric conductivity on concentration of electrically conductive filler is characteristic for filled ECPCs.
