Conductive microfibril aligned

The same authors 369,3701 also obtained similar results if the liquid crystal solvent was aligned by flow during the polymerization. They showed that the polymerization conditions lead to alignment of the fibrils within the polymer mass and of the chains within the fibrils polymers produced in this way could also be doped to a conductivity of 104 S cm-1 371). The morphology of polyacetylene produced by polymerization in a liquid crystal solvent, aligned both magnetically and by flow, has been studied by Montaner et al. 371). They show that the polymer film is made up of very long fibrils built from microfibrils. In one fibril, the orientation of microcrystalline domains with respect to the fibril axis is very well defined, whilst the orientation of the different fibrils in the sample spreads over 20°. 

As mentioned above, conductive network can be formed via fine contacts of aligned CB coated PET microfibrils. Additionally, the high t values suggest the existence of the tunneling conduction. Hence, contact conduction and tunneling conduction synergetically form the conductive networks of the ACPC material. 

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