At first glance, few materials would seem to have less in common than metals and textiles. And yet, by manufacturing nickel-titanium alloys as a highly deformable, interwoven material, more similar to ...

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 ...

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After journalist Neil King Jr.’s walk through York County, he wrote about a “memory boom” sounding within its 900-plus square miles. That thunder should be heard beyond its borders, he wrote in his ...

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Strong, lightweight, superelastic, and able to function across a range of temperatures, this newly developed alloy could be a game-changer for space exploration and medical technology. Researchers at ...