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Wonder if you could get anywhere revisiting this with modern materials science? Materials have come a really long way in the past 60+ years.
by api 4y ago
Wonder if you could get anywhere revisiting this with modern materials science? Materials have come a really long way in the past 60+ years.
- pas 4y agothe wikipedia page for nitinol is fascinating! so it seems like very much part of modern materials science. (and I'd guess bimetals are standard in many heat-related engineering applications, nitinol is just special because of how fast it changes shape, and because it's an alloy not 2 pieces of metal stuck together.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_titanium#Biocompatible_and_biomedical_applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_titanium#Biocompatible_...