FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND ELECTRODE, WIRING, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING, AND TRANSDUCER USING FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL

摘要

This flexible conductive material has an elastomer and a conductive material having silver at least on the surface. The conductive material is integrated into an elastomer network structure by direct or indirect chemical bonding with the elastomer. The volume resistivity when the flexible conductive material is elongated 10% in the direction of a single axis is 1 x 10-2 O·cm or less. This flexible conductive material is flexible and can stretch and contract. The electrical resistance thereof is not easily increased by repeated stretching and contraction. In addition, this method for manufacturing the flexible conductive material has a rubber composition preparation step in which a rubber composition containing a rubber polymer for an elastomer component, a conductive material, and a reactive compound that can chemically bond to both the elastomer and conductive material and that is mixed in according to necessity is prepared and a cross-linking step in which the rubber composition that has been prepared is cross-linked.