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We did look in to this a bit, and determined that it would be practically impossible to acquire some material to use (we did send an email to All Cell Technologies but they said they don’t sell the material directly, they will only sell it as built into a pack that you buy from them, which was super expensive). I did look into what it would take to make some, and determined it to be too difficult of a technical challenge. We also wouldn’t really be able to test the thermal runaway propagation technologies since the university wouldn’t really like us burning up cells on purpose. There may be a few battery labs on campus that we can reach out to about spaces to do this testing though. The main reason we did not pursue this route is that we needed something to work and be complete in a short time frame. We did not know if making a phase change material from paraffin wax stuffed with some kind of thermally conductive powder would even work, so we decided not to invest the resources into it. On this new cycle though, it would be great to reconsider!
Other resources for PCM:
https://ctherm.com/applications/phase-change-materials/
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=97512
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=84857&p=1241253&hilit=Outlast+phase#p1241253
https://www.allcelltech.com/pcc
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