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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cryobiology. 2016 Jun 21;73(2):272–281. doi: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2016.06.004

Table 1.

Material properties used for thermal analysis in the current study (temperature is in °C).

Material Property Value
7.05M DMSO Density, kg/m3 ρ = 1058 − 0.41 T [16]
Specific Heat, J/kg °C Eq. (3) [*]
Thermal Conductivity, W/m °C k = 0.899 + 1.01×10−2 T [*] −60°C < T < 25°C @ 50°C/min
k = 0.694 + 6.65×10−3 T [*] −60°C < T < 25°C @ 20°C/min
k = 0.609 + 5.24×10−3 T [*] −60°C < T < 25°C @ 10°C/min
k = 0.546 + 4.18×10−3 T [*] −60°C < T < 25°C @ 5°C/min
k = 0.332 + 6.12×10−4 T [5] −60°C < T < 25°C, Intrinsic
k = 0.312 + 2.54×10−4 T [3] −170°C < T < 60°C, Intrinsic

Polystyrene Cuvette Density, kg/m3 ρ = 1055 − 0.26 T [22]
Specific Heat, J/kg °C Cp = 1121 + 3.94 T [11]
Thermal Conductivity, W/m °C k = 0.14 + 1.3×10−4 T [34]

Quartz Cuvette Density, kg/m3 ρ = 2655 − 0.75 T [18]
Specific Heat, J/kg °C Cp = 692.89 + 1.852 T − 0.0031 T2 + 4.902×10−6 T3 [19]
Thermal Conductivity, W/m °C k = 6.57 + 0.016 T [28]

Polyethylene Tape Density, kg/m3 ρ = 931 − 0.49 T − 0.00091 T2 [14]
Specific Heat, J/kg °C Cp = 1031 + 3.57 T − 0.014 T2 − 6.17×10−5 T3 [10]
Thermal Conductivity, W/m °C k = 0.39 + 5.2×10−4 T [29]
[*]

Parametric estimation in the current study