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Can Graphite Electrodes Conduct Electricity?
May,06,2023

Do graphite electrodes conduct electricity? Theoretically speaking, graphite electrodes have the property of conducting electricity, but there are not many manufacturers in the world that can produce conductors with excellent conductivity. The main reason is that the conductors are expensive, the production process is complicated, the equipment is expensive and regular maintenance is strictly implemented. But some people don't think so, think that graphite electrodes have electrical conductivity because graphite electrodes have good electrical conductivity under high-temperature conditions, this is because the conductor is a metal conductor, which is made from metal through a certain chemical reaction, mainly relies on the chemical reaction of metal cations in metals or anions of metals that do not form metals in insulating media to generate conductive metals.

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Many metal cations can be found on graphite electrodes, and the insulating medium is completely conductive, so graphite electrodes are conductive. The conduction in the insulating medium must first be realized by the electric field, and the chemical diffusion is only a conduction mode of the electric field, and more comes from factors such as the diffusion of pores, solutions, solvents, and the interstitial effect between molecules. In addition, the graphite electrode has a direct effect on the base area due to the presence of gaps in the graphite electrode, so the conductivity is far superior to that of insulating materials. Even under high-temperature conditions, the conductivity of graphite electrodes can be maintained.

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If the graphite electrode has good conductivity, there will be no superconducting phenomenon, and there will be no ultra-high superconducting graphite. The most typical example is a superconductor, if it has perfect electrical conductivity, although the current can still conduct in it, the conduction process requires an electrochemical reaction or chemical diffusion in the base area at this time the superconductor will exit the physical level, and become a pure state. Going back to the graphite electrode, it is precisely because there is no such diffusion that the graphite electrode can be conductive. It is not very difficult to say that the material is conductive, but if the graphite electrode has high conductivity, it is difficult. on the material.

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Since the conductivity of the graphite electrode is so strong, if the graphite electrode can conduct electricity when the current can flow,  the insulation is not required if the insulation requirements are not strict. This is why conductive cables were developed. If it is a lithium battery, even if it has electrical conductivity, factors such as the heating of the battery itself and the temperature and pressure brought by the air in the external environment make it difficult to charge it. The significance of conductive cables is not that current can be conducted through conductive lines but to achieve battery isolation and protection.