Physical properties of carbon composite materials with low percolation threshold Original Research Article

Electrical and thermal properties of binary systems consisted of stearine and expanded graphite (EG) of different bulk densities (0.003 and 0.4 g/cm3), stearine and fine-crystalline graphite (CG) were examined. Heat capacity measurements display that phonon spectrum of graphite does not change after chemical and heat treatment in the temperature range from 300 to 700 K. It was shown that the value of samples’ percolation threshold depends on aspect ratio of using the electroconducting filler: EG as electroconducting filler is 20 times more effective than common crystal graphite.