Samsung has officially unveiled three new foldable smartphones and two new smartwatches at its Galaxy Unpacked event in ...

Nitinol is a nearly equiatomic metal alloy of nickel and titanium with unique properties, including superelasticity (also called pseudoelasticity) and shape memory ...

When people eventually head to the moon for long-term exploration and habitation, they'll need equipment and spacesuits made of well-tested materials. That's where NASA's Lunar Environment Test Rig ...

Natural filaments have exceptional control over curvature and twist enabled by directional responses embedded within their internal structure. To emulate this complex behavior, we use rotational ...

Like many scientists before him, Metallurgist William Buehler was blessed with serendipity, the gift of finding something valuable without actually looking for it. Assigned by the Naval Ordnance ...

A research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found a way to stop concrete rail ties from cracking under heavy train traffic. Led by civil and environmental engineering professor ...

The ubiquitous heating and cooling technology used today in everything from heat pumps to refrigerators and air conditioners – that make our lives more comfortable, safer and convenient – comes at a ...

The secret to how steel hardens and shape-memory alloys snap into place lies in rapid, atomic-scale shifts that scientists have struggled to observe in materials. Now, Cornell researchers are ...

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The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...

A study published in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing proposes an alloy design approach to develop NiTiNb shape memory alloys (SMAs). The researchers from Shandong University, Jinan, ...