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Article: Research on physics published by N.V.C. Shekar et al.(Report)
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- Physics Week
- Article date:
- November 17, 2009
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According to recent research published in the Indian Journal of Physics and Proceedings of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, "Zinc cyanide is an interesting negative thermal expansion (NTE) material exhibiting cubic structure at ambient pressure and temperature."
"We have investigated the structural stability of zinc cyanide under high pressure up to 5.2 GPa by performing X-ray powder diffraction in a diamond anvil cell. Under very low pressure of about 0.6 GPa, the diffraction peaks drastically reduce in intensity, indicating possible onset of disorder in the structure," wrote N.V.C. Shekar and colleagues.
The researchers ...