Chinese and Austrian researchers have developed an alloy with practically zero thermal expansion across a vast temperature range A metal alloy that barely expands over an "unprecedentedly" wide ...

(Courtesy: M Dove and L Li/Matter) The anomalous and ultra-low thermal expansion of cordierite results from the interplay between lattice vibrations and the elastic properties of the material. That is ...

Unlike most materials, cordierite displays an unusual combination of thermal expansions: low positive expansion along two perpendicular axes and negative expansion along the third. This unique ...

Unlike most materials, cordierite displays an unusual combination of thermal expansions: low positive expansion along two perpendicular axes and negative expansion along the third. This unique ...