This time he’s made himself a Nitinol wire inchworm, which actually moves across the table when you apply a switching electrical current to it! Nitinol is a shape memory alloy which has a cool ...

The differences in construction and design between nitinol (closed cell or open cell, tube or coiled sheet) and cobalt alloy (the Carotid Wallstent) stents provide each stent with unique ...

But there are other methods of locomotion available. As [Jamie Matthews] demonstrates, Nitinol wires can be another way to help get things moving. Nitinol is a type of metal wire made of nickel ...