SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TMD LAB (CEO Hak-Joon Sung) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the U.S. Department of Commerce are starting joint research on the ...

Researchers are working to better understand the complex internal microstructures of shape memory alloys and the results of their first-of-their-kind experiments. Shape memory alloys are well known ...

Albuquerque, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers, which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine.

A recent study in Nature Communications presents a new class of shape memory polymer (SMP) surfaces embedded with nanotips. These surfaces feature tunable nanoscale roughness, enabling adjustable dry ...