Changes in the Electrical Resistivity of Thin-Films for Polymer Composites Induced by Heating-Cooling Cycles

This paper is focus oin the analysis of the electrical resistivity of polymer composites respect to the temperature when samples are under heating-cooling cycles in two type of experiments namely： （1） at three different heating rates and （2） an isothermic one. Three different films S 1, S2 and S3 of Polystyrene ＋ 22 wt% CB were submitted to several heating-cooling cycles until a reversing process of the resistivity behavior was reached for each film. The heating was performed from room temperature, RT （24 ℃） to 120 ℃ at a rates of 1, 2 and 5 ℃/rain, respectively. A fourth film $4 was exposed to isothermic-heating-cooling cycles, consisting on heat from RT to 120 ℃ （at 2 ℃/min） and keep the film at 120 ℃ for 2.5 hours. The cooling rate was 0.2 ℃/min for all samples. Results show that the cycle＇s number for reaching the electrical stability of films were strongly dependent on the heating rate more than the kind of process （continuous or isothermic）. Main analysis shows that as a lower the heating rate （1 ℃/min）