In a groundbreaking development, NASA has announced a new alloy that could be the key to unlocking ultra-stable space telescopes needed to detect exoplanets and their potential for habitability. This ...

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope thermal stability.

Even materials such as Invar and ZERODUR®, renowned for having low or even-zero coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE), have not been enough for this new generation of ultra-precision.

Due to the thinness of two-dimensional materials, until now, measuring their thermal expansion could only be accomplished indirectly or with the use of a support structure called a substrate. Those ...

By finely tuning the ways these materials react to heat and other forms of energy, researchers could create materials with zero thermal expansion. This could revolutionize areas such as construction.

The thermal expansion phenomenon, where volume expands on heating, is a common quality seen in almost all material. Instruments utilizing the thermal expansion phenomenon, such as alcohol ...

Buildings, batteries and ‘wild ideas’ By finely tuning the ways these materials react to heat and other forms of energy, researchers could create materials with zero thermal expansion. This could ...

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 ...

The need for new materials and substances in the energy and environmental fields is increasing for the construction of a sustainable society. In this research, we target negative thermal expansion ...