When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even minimal material expansion down to a fraction of the width of an atom is the ...

A high-resolution TEM image of the nanoparticles studied in this work. Courtesy: J Belo Most materials expand when they are heated up and contract when cooled down – a phenomenon known as positive ...

The remarkable framework flexibility is one of the most important advantages of porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or metal–organic frameworks, which allows the host structures to be altered by ...

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is fascinating as it involves a material’s volume contraction rather than expansion upon heating. Although NTE lattices typically have highly flexible frameworks, the ...

Most materials expand when heated. A few, such as water just above freezing, contract. Now, for the first time, physicists have found a material that switches from expanding to contracting in the ...

Did you know the Eiffel Tower can grow up to 15 centimeters taller in summer? This change is mainly due to thermal expansion. It shows how temperature changes can make metal structures grow and shrink ...

In this interview, Venkat Nandivada Manager of Technical Sales at Master Bond Inc talks to AZoM about the tricky task of bonding two dissimilar substrates together. In your opinion, what is one of the ...

A research collaboration has created a pyrochlore magnet alloy with near-zero thermal expansion, outperforming Invar. This breakthrough, based on advanced computer simulations, stabilizes materials ...