Sentences with phrase «shape memory alloys»

One common approach to making artificial muscles uses materials called shape memory alloys, such as a mixture of nickel and titanium.

«In our systems, shape memory alloys (SMAs) are used to remove heat,» explains Stefan Seelecke, Professor for Intelligent Material Systems at Saarland University.

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) show distinctive behaviours such as shape recovery upon heating and have a superelastic effect.

Artificial muscles made with carbon nanotubes or a shape memory alloy can be designed to act as fuel cells, thus alleviating a need for a remote battery power source.

Shape memory alloy microgripper for robotic microassembly of tissue engineering scaffolds.

You'll also find magnesium seat frames on the Stingray, and we think the unique shape memory alloy that replaces the hatch vent actuator is one of the coolest things about the new car.

Sandwiched beneath the display are a number of shape memory alloy wires that contract when the phone notifies the user.

The MorePhone's curling capabilities come courtesy of shape memory alloy wires that are sandwiched underneath the flexible display and contract when a call, text or email comes in.

Not exact matches

Nitinol, the shape memory nickel - titanium alloy, not only is too heavy and expensive for a climbing rope, but would be difficult to knot or coil and would be too sensitive to temperature changes in terms of how much it stretched, the researchers say.

A team of researchers at Tohoku University has discovered that the Mg - Sc alloy shows shape memory properties.

Shape memory characteristics were first discovered in an Au - Cd alloy.

«Shape memory means that wires or sheets made from a nickel - titanium alloy have a certain ability to remember their original shape: If they undergo deformation, they will return to their earlier sShape memory means that wires or sheets made from a nickel - titanium alloy have a certain ability to remember their original shape: If they undergo deformation, they will return to their earlier sshape: If they undergo deformation, they will return to their earlier shapeshape.

The coils are made from a shape - memory alloy (SMA)-- a type of material that «remembers» an engineered shape and, when bent or deformed, can spring back to this shape when heated.

Shape - memory alloys like nickel - titanium can essentially be «trained» to return to an original shape in response to a certain temperaShape - memory alloys like nickel - titanium can essentially be «trained» to return to an original shape in response to a certain temperashape in response to a certain temperature.

Lookman and his colleagues focused on nickel - titanium - based shape - memory alloys, but the strategy can be used for any materials class (polymers, ceramics or nanomaterials) or target properties (e.g., dielectric response, piezoelectric coefficients and band gaps).

As well as the superelastic effect, shape memory effect was observed in a Mg - Sc alloy (Video 1).

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The combination alloy offers more elasticity and has unique abilities for shape memory.