Negative thermal expansion (NTE), referring to the lattice contraction upon heating, has
been an attractive topic of solid-state chemistry and functional materials. The response of a …

Materials with negative Poisson's ratio attract considerable attention due to their underlying
intriguing physical properties and numerous promising applications, particularly in stringent …

The past decade has seen a diverse range of breakthrough inventions that are derived from
gold complexes, including the application of aurophilic interactions in the preparation of …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) alloys possess great practical merit as thermal offsets for
positive thermal expansion due to its metallic properties. However, achieving a large NTE …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) materials have become a rapidly growing area of
research over the past two decades. The initial discovery of materials displaying NTE over a …

The counterintuitive phenomenon of negative linear compressibility (NLC) is a highly
desirable but rare property exploitable in the development of artificial muscles, actuators and …

Anomalous thermal expansion behaviour of several open frame-work compounds has been
extensively investigated using the techniques of inelastic neutron scattering and lattice …

In general, the relatively modest expansion experienced by most materials on heating is
caused by increasing anharmonic vibrational amplitudes of the constituent atoms, ions or …

Functionalized metal–organic frameworks (fu‐MOFs) of general formula [Zn2 (fu‐L) 2dabco]
n show unprecedentedly large uniaxial positive and negative thermal expansion (fu‐L …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE), whereby lattices contract upon heating, is of
considerable interest for its wide applications in many fields. Molecular materials have been …