Abstract
Temperature variation of electrical conductivity has been measured for rubber vulcanised with different concentrations of sulphur. Change of amorphous character with sulphur concentration has also been measured from the amorphous halo of the Debye-Scherrer x-ray photographs of the samples. The conductivity of vulcanised rubber in glassy state shows a slow and gradual increase; but during glass transition it increases suddenly to a high value which again exhibits gradual increase in high elastic state. X-ray studies show that with increase of sulphur, the amorphous region decreases due to formation of cross-links by the chain units. The decrease of conductivity with increase of sulphur is then due to decrease of amorphous region. The fast decrease of conductivity with sulphur at low concentration in the high elastic state indicates high rate of formation of cross-links at such concentration.
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