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 ...

Self-expanding patches, containers, filters, connector frameworks, and other items are only a few examples of the many uses for nitinol. The most well-known properties of nitinol compounds are their ...

Instead of going to the trouble of assembling structures under the sea, for example, Buehler suggests prefabricating them out of Nitinol set below seawater temperatures, cooling and compressing ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Nitinol is a curious material. On the surface, it looks like any other piece of wire. But the nickel-titanium alloy is about 30 times more bendable than other metals, it can be twisted into almost ...

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 ...

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 ...