Electrically conducting material and process of preparing same

Abstract

An electrically conducting material including a cyanic group-containing material having adsorbed thereby copper sulfide. The cyanic group-containing material is in the form of powder or shaped body such as fiber, film, plate, rod or like and is formed of a synthetic polymer such as polyacrylonitrile or a polyamide having introduced thereinto cyanic groups; a naturally occurring polymeric substance such as cotton having introduced thereinto cyanic groups; or a low molecular compound such as phthalonitrile. The electrically conducting material may be prepared by treating the cyanic group-containing material with a source of monovalent copper ions and a sulfur-containing compound to form copper sulfide adsorbed by the cyanic group-containing material.

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