{"id":239766,"date":"2026-06-27T03:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/novel-crystal-strategy-delivers-near-perfect-zero-thermal-expansion-from-11-k-to-893-k"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:11:21","slug":"novel-crystal-strategy-delivers-near-perfect-zero-thermal-expansion-from-11-k-to-893-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/novel-crystal-strategy-delivers-near-perfect-zero-thermal-expansion-from-11-k-to-893-k","title":{"rendered":"Novel crystal strategy delivers near-perfect zero thermal expansion from 11 K to 893 K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-crystal-strategy-delivers-near-perfect-zero-thermal-expansion-from-11-k-to-893-k.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost every material expands when heated. Well-known examples include railroad tracks and concrete roadways, which feature visible expansion gaps to accommodate this effect. However, thermal expansion poses a far more acute challenge for extremely precise technologies, such as lasers and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, where even minute dimensional changes can compromise precision.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long sought to develop materials that maintain dimensional stability across a wide temperature range.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team led by Prof. Lin Zheshuai from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has designed a material with an exceptionally broad zero-thermal-expansion temperature window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every material expands when heated. Well-known examples include railroad tracks and concrete roadways, which feature visible expansion gaps to accommodate this effect. However, thermal expansion poses a far more acute challenge for extremely precise technologies, such as lasers and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, where even minute dimensional changes can compromise precision. Scientists have long sought [\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-239766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239766","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=239766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}