Researchers have introduced the world’s first refrigerator which cools with artificial muscles made of nitinol – a nickel-titanium alloy. The refrigerator developed by the team at Saarland ...

Nitinol is a shape memory alloy which has a cool property that causes it to retain (and return to) a preset shape when heat (or electricity!) is applied. It’s actually quite simple — he’s ...

Miudella is the first new hormone-free IUD on the market since 1984. Its flexible design means it fits more comfortably inside the uterus. For the first time in more than 40 years, a new hormone-free ...

Nitinol is a kind of wire that has a memory. If you heat it, it tries to return to the shape it remembers. [Latheman666] recently posted a video (see below) of a Nitinol engine that uses a ...

MAGENTA’s core consists of a spring made of nitinol, a shape-memory alloy that shortens when heated to a specific temperature. The metal is encased in a rectangular box made of flexible plastic, which ...

See past examples here. Lancelot is made of bovine pericardium (tissue from a cow's heart) and nitinol, an alloy with shape memory. This combination of materials allows the valve to maintain a ...