Liquid Crystals as Phase Change Materials for Thermal Stabilization

Figure 3

The time dependency of the incoming heat flux (relative units) for three values of phase change temperature (black solid curve), (red dotted curve), and (blue dashed curve). For comparison, the composite without PCM (black dotted curve) is included. Initial temperature is set to (a) , (b) , and (c) .

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