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Most metals expand when their temperature rises. This effect is extremely undesirable for many technical applications. Now, scientists have created a new material that hardly changes in length over an ...

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Credit: National Science Review (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwae462 Most metals expand when their temperature rises. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is about 10 to 15 centimeters taller in summer than in ...

A study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C reports a collaboration between theoretical researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) and experimentalists at the University of Science and Technology ...