Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling with the challenge of creating a shape-memory ceramic that can be manufactured ...

Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have been useful in a variety of applications, as actuators that can control the ...

This shape-memory plastic from mnemoScience reverts to its parent shape in 45 seconds at a temperature of 65°C. What if it were possible to create plastic objects in one shape, deform them to fit ...

Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of nature's book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire. The new technology enables the fabrication of flexible ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A metal that can move on its own will play a key role in NASA’s next voyage to Mars A metal that can move on its ...

A new technology that uses a water jet to guide a laser enables precision micromachining without causing damage to delicate metal materials. Delphine Perrottet, Roy Housh, and Bernold Richerzhagen ...