The change in temperature of a body causes expansion or contraction of that body. Most of the substances expand on heating and contract on cooling. This is called thermal expansion. It has been ...

Thermal expansion properties of solids are of fundamental interest and control of thermal expansion is important for practical applications but can be difficult to achieve. Many framework-type ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...

Most solids expand when heated, a familiar phenomenon with many practical implications. Among the rare exceptions to this rule, the compound zirconium tungstate stands out by virtue of the enormous ...

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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 ...

The distances between particles are smallest in the solid, they are larger in the liquid and larger again in the gas. The particles in gases and liquids move more freely than in solids, so their ...

Just about every (but not all) solids expand with an increase in temperature. Why? Before going to the answer, let's look at a common model of a solid - the ball and spring model. In this model, solid ...

Australian researchers have created what may be one of the most thermally stable materials ever discovered. This new zero thermal expansion (ZTE) material made of scandium, aluminum, tungsten and ...

In a major advancement, researchers have demonstrated negative thermal expansion with a large coefficient of −14.4(2) × 10-6 °C-1 in oxygen-redox (OR) active materials, offering new possibilities for ...

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