A comprehensive study of the structure and phase composition of a promising brand of electrically conductive carbon black was carried out. It is shown that the material under study has a complex phase composition, which, along with carbon, includes other elements and compounds, such as sulphur, oxygen, nitrogen, and vanadium oxides. The structural state of carbon black can be defined as amorphous. The presence of functional oxygen-containing groups in the material, presumably attached to the edge carbon atoms of graphene layers, has been proved. The interrelation of some characteristics of the structure and phase composition of the material and the properties of polymer composites is discussed.
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