{"product_id":"9781945291487","title":"Negative Thermal Expansion Materials","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn everyday life, minute thermally-induced elongations are essentially invisible to the naked eye; but even minute expansions can fatally degrade device processing and performance in – for example – the semiconductor industry. Materials which, astonishingly, contract upon heating offer the great advantage of being able to tune the overall thermal expansion of composite materials or to act as thermal-expansion compensators. The development of these negative thermal expansion materials has advanced rapidly during the past fifteen years, and a wide variety of materials of differing types has now been identified, as well as a number of intriguing mechanisms which help to avoid the apparent inviolable tendency of size to increase with temperature. The present work is the most up-to-date summary of the current range of negative thermal expansion materials and of the associated mechanisms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Materials Research Forum LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047585726704,"sku":"9781945291487","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945291487_p0.jpg?v=1763806548","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945291487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}