Responsiveness of electric resistance of polymer-grafted carbon black/alumina gel composite against solvent vapor and solute in solution

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norio Tsubokawa ◽  
Junya Inaba ◽  
Katsunori Arai ◽  
Kazuhiro Fujiki
1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 996-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otomar Špalek

With porous electrodes prepared by pressing a mixture of carbon black and polyethylene powder, the influence of the content of the binder on their electric resistance, wettability, current density, and current yield of peroxide during reduction of oxygen was studied.


1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otomar Špalek ◽  
Karel Balogh

The reduction of oxygen to hydrogen peroxide was studied in semihydrophobic trickle electrodes prepared from crushed graphite and teflonized carbon black. The potential of these electrodes was found markedly more positive and the peroxide current yields appreciably higher than for electrodes made of used crushed graphite. The reason for this is the higher surface area of the electrodes containing carbon black and occurrence of a three-phase interface in them. The relevant properties, i.e. electric resistance, electrolyte holdup, polarization curves for the oxygen reduction and pexide current yields, were also studied for trickle electrodes containing graphite felt. The electrochemical activity of electrodes made from untreated felt was found rather low but it increased several times when felt pretreated by oxidation was used.


Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 2411
Author(s):  
E. Harea ◽  
S. Datta ◽  
M. Stěnička ◽  
J. Maloch ◽  
R. Stoček

A monotonous relation between strain and measured electric resistance is highly appreciated in stretchable elastomer sensors. In real-life application the voids or technological holes of strained samples often induce non-homogeneous local strain. The present article focused on studying the effect of non-homogeneous local strain on measured direct current (DC) effective electric resistance (EER) on samples of natural rubber (NR), reinforced with 50, 60 and 70 phr of carbon black (CB). Samples were imparted geometrical inhomogeneities to obtain varied local strains. The resulting strain distribution was analyzed using Digital Image Correlation (DIC). EER exhibited a well-detectable influence of locations of inhomogeneities. Expectedly, the EER globally decreased with an increase in CB loading, but showed a steady increase as a function of strain for 50 and 60 phr over the complete testing protocol. Interestingly, for 70 phr of CB, under the same testing conditions, an alternating trend in EER was encountered. This newly observed behavior was explained through a novel hypothesis—“current propagation mode switching phenomenon”. Finally, experimentally measured EERs were compared with the calculated ones, obtained by summing the global current flow through a diversity of strain dependent resistive domains.


1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norio Tsubokawa ◽  
Sachio Yoshikawa ◽  
Kiyotaka Maruyama ◽  
Tomoaki Ogasawara ◽  
Kazuhiro Saitoh

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