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.

A breakthrough alloy resists thermal expansion across a 400K range, offering unmatched stability for aerospace, electronics and precision engineering.

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 ...

Many water heaters feature an expansion tank to protect the system. Here's what a water heater expansion tank does and how you know if your system needs one.

Creating composites with near-zero thermal expansion NTE materials mixed with a PTE material in composites that have near-zero thermal expansion are particularly useful as temperature-stable thermal ...

Of particular note are the practical considerations of the design; [Mark] aimed to use square aluminum tubing as much as possible, with machining requirements that were easily done with the ...

Since the end of 2024, a critical shortage of T-Glass has been disrupting the global supply chain for advanced chip packaging ...

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 few metals, however, do the opposite, exhibiting what’s known as negative thermal expansion (NTE). A team of researchers led by Ignace Jarrige and Daniel Mazzone of Brookhaven National Laboratory in ...

Intentional cracks in the sidewalk are a perfect example of how engineers deal with thermal expansion. By filling these gaps with a flexible material, the engineers create what's known as a ...

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