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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Confluent Medical (formerly Nitinol Devices & Components “NDC”) launched today the High-Performance Nitinol Tubing Center of Excellence in response to ...

We evaluated whether primary implantation of a self-expanding nitinol (nickel–titanium) stent yielded anatomical and clinical benefits superior to those afforded by percutaneous transluminal ...

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 ...

An Irish supplier’s joining technology allows the welding of nitinol to stainless steel, a process formerly marred by the creation of intermetallics, which produce brittle joints. For three years, ...

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 ...

NASHUA, N.H., May 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Resonetics® announced today that it has acquired the nitinol gun drilling operations and related assets of Medical Component Specialists' (MCS ...