Fort Wayne Metals on Thursday announced it is working with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to advance shape memory alloy material technology for innovative rover tires that could support the ...

Engineers have created shape-memory materials made of ceramic rather than of traditional metal. The development opens a new range of applications, especially for actuators in high-temperature settings ...

From glass to shape memory alloys, scientists are uncovering the hidden rules that govern how materials bend, deform, and return to shape. New breakthroughs show that even disordered materials like ...

These airless Metl tires are made from nitinol, a shape-memory alloy that ‘stretches like rubber but is strong like titanium.’ Warning: Kickstarter. These airless Metl tires are made from nitinol, a ...

A chance discovery in 1959 by military scientists led to Nitinol, a metal that remembers its shape. This nickel-titanium ...

This Collection welcomes original research on shape memory alloys, with a focus on their synthesis, structural and functional characterisation, and emerging applications. Shape memory alloys (SMAs) ...

This atomistic model showing the coexistence of two solid phases of NiTi: austenite (blue), stable at higher temperatures, and martensite (brown), stable at lower temperatures. The martensite region ...

Some metal alloys will "remember" a shape when you heat them to the same temperature they were originally shaped at. So a straight wire made from... Researchers Create New 'Memory' Metals That Could ...

Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have been useful in a variety of applications, as actuators that can control the ...