Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A metal that can move on its own will play a key role in NASA’s next voyage to Mars A metal that can move on its ...

IMDEA Materials combines additive manufacturing, algorithms, and architectural design to create superelastic nitinol ...

A German research team has prototyped an extraordinary heating/cooling system that stresses and unloads nickel-titanium "muscle wires" to create heated and cooled air at twice the efficiency of a heat ...

Another Kickstarter, another opportunity for people to get mad at delayed and poorly functioning (if delivered at all) gadgets. This project aims to make airless tires for bikes and scooters using ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) and The University of Toledo Institute of Applied Engineering Research today announced a partnership to support the development of nickel-titanium ...

If you’re a fan of Wolverine, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve tried to turn random pointy objects into an IRL version of the mutant’s claws. Certainly some of us remember taping pencils to our ...

As an extremely versatile product, nickel-titanium (nitinol) has been in high demand for the production of various medical devices since well before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Today, a ...

Nitinol's name is derived from its alloy composition and place of discovery; Nickel Titanium and the Naval Ordinance Laboratory in America. In 1959, William J Buehler attempted to design better ...

How a special nitinol compound and 3D printing was used to create the shape-shifting antenna. An overview of materials and heating problems they encountered, and how they overcame them. The test ...