Besides superfluous features like touchscreens and internal cameras, basic refrigerator technology hasn't changed much in decades. They still chill your milk by way of chemical refrigerants and ...

A team from Lanzhou University of Technology have developed a novel NiTi shape memory allow (SMA) with harmonic ...

Humanity may be divided on a great many issues, but most would agree that it would be very cool to have airplane wings made of shapeshifting metal. The geometry of those fabulous foils affects ...

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 ...

Since magnetic-field-induced strain was reported for NiMnGa (refs 1, 5), many other ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys, such as FePd (refs 2, 6, 7), FePt (ref. 8), NiCoGa (refs 9, 10), NiCoAl (refs ...