Can you make a material that doesn’t react to heat? USC research team thinks so, and is proving it

Monday, November 7, 2016 - 08:41 in Physics & Chemistry

A USC engineering research team has developed a material that contracts when heated, completing its first step toward developing a material that is unresponsive to heat. Typical materials, like those used to make buildings or bridges, expand when they get hot. For this reason, expansion joints are needed to allow the materials to swell without […]

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