Organic thermoelectric devices (OTEs) convert waste heat into useful electric power, but they are not yet efficient enough ...

There are lots of reasons your hearing your house creak at night; other than a haunting by your local ghost, there's probably a more mundane reason.

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.

Thermal safety is a key bottleneck in the development of high-energy-density batteries, primarily due to the high volatility and flammability of organic electrolytes. Efforts to enhance battery safety ...

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 ...

A breakthrough in negative thermal expansion with OR-active materials offers new design strategies for zero-thermal-expansion materials in various industries.

Low-positive, near-zero, and negative thermal expansion materials are relatively rare. Although these unusual thermal expansion properties have been reported in the past for a few phases, systematic ...

Most materials expand on heating, known as positive thermal expansion. Thermal expansion is critical in many technological applications, like precise instruments, glazes and coating materials, optical ...