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While the electrical and thermal properties of some of these films have been studied in great detail, little is known about the factors which control the ultimate distribution of metal in the polymer matrix. In this work, the segregation of components in polyimide modified with the gold salt, HAuCl₄·H₂O, is described. Thermal treatment usually promoted three changes in the film: (1) conversion of an initially present polyamic acid to the thermally stable polyimide, (2) reduction of chloroauric acid to metallic gold and (3) redistribution of the metal into gold domains either in the bulk or at a surface of the film. The third event listed above has been termed metalization. Most of the gold modified polyimide I films exhibited bulk metalization as evidenced by the dispersion of very small gold particles through out the film. 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