Researchers Synthesize Novel Material with Unique Thermal Expansion Properties
Written by AZoMDec 21 2020
At the Tokyo Institute of Technology, researchers have recently produced an innovative material that exhibits special thermal expansion properties.
Image Credit: Toshihiro Isobe, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
The technique employed by the researchers allows the synthesis of a special crystalline oxide that contains phosphorus, sulfur and zirconium and shows two separate mechanisms of negative thermal expansion.
This material is the first one to exhibit this property and its application might help prevent damaging of composite materials, like computer chip components, which experience sudden temperature variations.
A majority of the materials have the ability to expand upon heating, as the atoms move away from one another. The expansibility of the materials when heated is quantified by making use of the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). Most of the existing industry-