[Steven’s] at it again with another cool science experiment that isn’t too difficult to do. This time he’s made himself a Nitinol wire inchworm, which actually moves across the table when you apply a ...

In recent years the use of nitinol (an almost equiatomic binary intermetallic compound of nickel and titanium) has been steadily growing, particularly in the medical and dental device markets. Nitinol ...

NitiBrite nitinol wire is processed using an oxide-removal technique that produces a smooth, shiny surface without the use of acid-based solutions. Going green by way of reducing the output of ...

A German research team has prototyped an extraordinary heating/cooling system that stresses and unloads nickel-titanium "muscle wires" to create heated and cooled air at twice the efficiency of a heat ...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vention Medical announced today its recent acquisition of Lithotech Medical, an industry leader in complex nitinol wire-based technologies based in Israel. The ...

Memry Inc.'s Bethel facility is wired for production. The producer of super-elastic Nitinol wire and tubing recently opened a 20,000-square-foot wire-drawing plant to make thin-gauge strands out of a ...

Another Kickstarter, another opportunity for people to get mad at delayed and poorly functioning (if delivered at all) gadgets. This project aims to make airless tires for bikes and scooters using ...

SPENCER, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2006--Cook Urological, a division of Cook, the world's largest private medical device company, today announced the availability of the Flexor(R) DL (Dual Lumen ...

Fort Wayne Metals technician works with Nitinol, a cutting-edge shape memory alloy. · GlobeNewswire Inc. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fort Wayne Metals, a leader in the ...

Any robot that moves needs actuators—motors that move parts of the robot around. While robot actuators have been around since the dawn of machines, they have some issues. For one, it is very difficult ...