Electrically Responsive Composite Material, a Method of Manufacture and a Transducer Produced Using Said Material

An electrically responsive composite material configurable for application in a transducer, comprising:

• a flowable polymer liquid;
• electrically conductive acicular particles that facilitate the conduction of electricity through a solid polymer by quantum tunnelling;
• and
• dielectric particles of a size such that a plurality of said dielectric particles are dispersed between many adjacent acicular particles.

A method of fabricating a transducer, comprising the steps of:

• applying a flowable polymer liquid that contains electrically conductive acicular particles and dielectric particles;
• facilitating a transition of said flowable polymer liquid to a resilient solid polymer, in which said resilient solid polymer has said conductive acicular particles dispersed therein in combination with said dielectric particles;
• wherein
• said dielectric particles are of a size relative to said acicular particles such that a plurality of said dielectric particles are dispersed between adjacent acicular particles.