Shape memory alloys are exotic materials that can be deformed at room temperature and return to their "remembered," ...

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are a remarkable class of stimuli‐responsive materials capable of undergoing substantial deformation and subsequently recovering their original shape when exposed to ...

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 ...

Researchers have significantly improved a new joining technology, interlocking metasurfaces (ILMs), designed to increase the strength and stability of a structure in comparison to traditional ...

Researchers from Shandong University have suggested an alloy design approach to create NiTiNb shape memory alloys (SMAs) by laser powder bed fusion in-situ alloying and post-heat treatment in a study ...