Robots intended to work alongside people or operate in confined, unpredictable environments need actuators that can bend, ...
Virginia Tech advances additive friction stir deposition - creating a strong, defect-free material that can be 3D printed in bulk.
Zinc-tin alloy sputtering targets play a vital role in thin-film deposition for semiconductor fabrication, optical coatings, ...
Researchers in the US have developed a novel 3D-printed smart composite that enables brittle ceramics to bend, absorb energy, and withstand heavy mechanical loads, while being manufactured at full ...
Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...
For all their superhuman power, today’s AI models suffer from a surprisingly human flaw: They forget. Give an AI assistant a sprawling conversation, a multi-step reasoning task or a project spanning ...
A team of researchers from the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are turning to shape metal alloys (SMAs) to mitigate the damage that commonly occurs with ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shape Memory Medical Inc., innovator of shape memory polymer for endovascular applications, today announced that its proprietary platform has been used to treat its ...
October 16, 2025—Shape Memory Medical Inc. announced that it has reached 50% enrollment in the ongoing AAA-SHAPE Pivotal Trial (NCT06029660) evaluating the IMPEDE-FX RapidFill device (Shape Memory ...
Abstract: This paper proposes a spin-selective reconfigurable reflective metamaterial based on shape memory alloy (SMA). The metamaterial unit consists of copper foil and two pieces of SMA, which ...