• Cirtec Medical, a portfolio company of 3i Group, acquired Vascotube, a Baden - Wuerttemberg, Germany - based maker of precision - engineered nitinol tubing. (fortune.com)
like nitinol wire, which is used not only in peripheral artery stents, heart valves, underwire bras and eyeglass frames, but also in golf clubs, dental wires, fire detectors, helicopter blades and artificial hips. (sciencedaily.com)
Hawkes can work his way up a glass wall using a climbing device based on arrays of sticky tiles, each rigged with a spring made of the nickel - titanium alloy nitinol. (sciencenews.org)