While shape-memory materials do have some interesting potential applications, many of them require the application of heat in order to change shape – and that could cause problems, in ...

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have developed a new material whose shape memory is activated by magnetism. It retains a given shape when it is put into a magnetic field.

Researchers have developed a biocompatible material that can be 3D printed into any shape and pre-programmed with reversible shape memory. The material is made using keratin, a fibrous protein found ...

Led by civil and environmental engineering professor Bassem Andrawes from Grainger College of Engineering, the team used ...

Shape-memory materials are nifty little things that can recover their original shape after having been altered. Researchers have now been able to create shape-memory textiles from recycled wool used ...

A new plant-based polymer developed by researchers at Lithuania's Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) offers an alternative to petroleum-based plastics, with numerous added benefits. The smart ...

Engineers have discovered a new kind of shape-shifting memory material that they claim could transform everything from jet engines to robotics. A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

(Nanowerk News) Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have been useful in a variety of applications, as actuators that ...

Anyone with curly hair understands shape memory. No matter how much time you spend straightening your hair, as soon as it touches water the curls return because hair has shape memory. Harvard ...

Fort Wayne Metals on Thursday announced it is working with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to advance shape memory alloy material technology for innovative rover tires that could support the ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have developed a new material whose shape memory is activated by magnetism. It retains a given shape when it is put into a ...