{"id":172060,"date":"2023-09-15T02:26:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-develop-high-performance-zero-thermal-expansion-composite-for-precision-devices"},"modified":"2023-09-15T02:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:26:36","slug":"researchers-develop-high-performance-zero-thermal-expansion-composite-for-precision-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-develop-high-performance-zero-thermal-expansion-composite-for-precision-devices","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop high-performance zero thermal expansion composite for precision devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-high-performance-zero-thermal-expansion-composite-for-precision-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, a research group led by Prof. Peng Tong from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), significantly improved the negative thermal expansion (NTE) effect of Cu<sub>2<\/sub>P<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>7<\/sub>, a new but excellent NTE material, and prepared a zero thermal expansion (ZTE) Cu<sub>2<\/sub>P<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>7<\/sub>\/2024Al composite with high specific thermal conductivity and good machinability.<\/p>\n<p>The research results were published in <i>Journal of Materials Science &amp; Technology<\/i> and Ceramics International.<\/p>\n<p>With the advancement of high-tech fields, it is not possible to adjust the dimensions of precision equipment. However, thermal expansion with temperature is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fundamental+property\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental property<\/a> of many regularly used materials that is difficult to control. Combining NTE materials with ordinary positive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/thermal+expansion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thermal expansion<\/a> materials is an efficient way to produce ZTE materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a research group led by Prof. Peng Tong from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), significantly improved the negative thermal expansion (NTE) effect of Cu2P2O7, a new but excellent NTE material, and prepared a zero thermal expansion (ZTE) Cu2P2O7\/2024Al composite with high specific thermal conductivity and good machinability. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}