Conductive Blacks

Continental Carbon Company's new super conductive carbon black enables users to produce wide ranges of conductivity levels in their products at lower loadings than competitors' conductive carbon blacks. Low loading allows easier processing and good dispersion (see images below) for compounds sensitive to filler addition and helps avoid losses in mechanical and rheological properties, thus, improving the performance of our customer's products while providing raw material cost savings. Continental's super conductive carbon black has extremely high surface area and structure levels, approximately 1000 m2/g (BET) and 500 ml/100g respectively making it 10 times or more conductive than the competition's traditional conductive grades at loadings of 5 PHR or less.

The unique properties of Continental Carbon Company's super conductive carbon black make it a highly adaptable product suitable for use in a wide variety of applications:

  • Electrostatic dissipation
  • Conductive polymers
  • Platinum catalyst support
  • Batteries and energy storage
  • Cables
  • Coatings
  • Packaging for IC parts
  • Automotive parts
  • Cell phones
  • and many more

The images below demonstrate the well-dispersed surface morphology of Continental Carbon Company's super conductive carbon black in a rubber compound. The rubber compound was examined by taping-mode atomic force microscopy (TM-AFM) with a Nanoscope IIIa instrument. The photos are courtesy of Prof. J. B.Donnet and Dr.C.C.Wang, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, ENSISA/ENSCMu, France.