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 ...

Most materials in our world shrink in volume when cooled and expand when heated. Humans have known this for some time, and have built our civilization with that in mind. Yet, as we seek to expand ...

Zero-thermal-expansion (ZTE) materials are widely used in precision optics, cryogenic equipment and sensors, where even small ...

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 ...

Inspired by hierarchical structures found in nature, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...