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Emmanuel U Osuagwu1,2, Dalton Compton2, Erin E Taylor2
1Materials Science Program, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States.
Abstract:
Materials that exhibit negative thermal expansion (NTE) are of fundamental interest due to their rarity and counterintuitive behavior. While research in this area has been directed toward the discovery of materials that display NTE and explaining its origin, there has been less attention to describing the complexities of a secondary phase or other guests that could influence the magnitude and mechanism of NTE. We report herein that zeolite-templated carbon (ZTC), a soft carbonaceous framework solid with ordered microporosity, exhibits a large and widely tunable thermal expansion in the presence of adsorbed guests. For ZTC in the presence of CO2 at 1 bar, the largest coefficient of isotropic NTE ever observed (-8.4 × 10-4 K-1) is measured between 200 and 220 K. These results comprise a tunable mechanism of thermal expansion based on the interaction between two independent, positively expanding phases that together give rise to an anomalous guest-induced NTE under certain conditions.
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