Goodyear Aerospace Corp. has already demonstrated that a complex Nitinol satellite antenna crumpled up into a small ball before launching can be restored to its original form simply by heating it ...

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 ...

Nitinol, a common shape memory alloy made from ... The process also required post processing and forming over a metal fixture, so there’s a bit to making it work. We’ve seen liquid metal ...

Furthermore, in the last 12 months, to meet growing market needs and customer demand, Fort Wayne Metals has expanded to melting Nitinol into bar, strip, and sheet form. To address growing demand ...

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 ...