Hacksmith Industries As Hobson shows in the build video, he made his Wolverine claws out of nitinol; a unique metal ... Alloys to deliver the initial blades. Hobson then shows how he smoothed ...

This project aims to make airless tires for bikes and scooters using nitinol, and despite the company’s failed attempt at pedaling their wares on Shark Tank last year, the campaign has already ...

This time he’s made himself a Nitinol wire inchworm, which actually moves across the table when you apply a switching electrical current to it! Nitinol is a shape memory alloy which has a cool ...

A rover on the Moon has metal wheels that can flex around rocky obstacles, then reshape back to their original form. On Earth, surgeons install tiny mesh tubes that can dilate a heart patient’s ...

During laboratory tests, Buehler and Physicist Frederick Wang reported in Ocean Engineering, they fashioned Nitinol into a complex shape at a high temperature, then cooled it and crushed it beyond ...

In some cases – particularly with nickel-titanium, also known as nitinol – these metals absorb significant amounts of heat when they're bent out of shape, and then release that heat when they ...

NASA’s Glenn Research Center came up with the idea for nitinol in the late 2000s in preparation for bigger, heavier lunar vehicles. Faced with the possibility of traditional air-filled tires ...

Dec. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fort Wayne Metals, a leader in the development of precision materials for the medical device industry, has announced significant advancements in its Nitinol ...

Nitinol is a smart material that can be used as an actuator, a sensor, or a structural element, and has the potential to significantly enhance the capabilities of microrobots. Femtosecond laser ...