SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shape Memory Medical Inc. announced today that it has entered into a sublicense agreement with a global MedTech market leader. Under the agreement, Shape Memory ...

Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of nature's book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire. The new technology enables the fabrication of flexible ...

Shape Memory Medical Inc., the innovator of the only commercially available volume-expanding shape memory polymer for endovascular embolization applications, announced today that it has received ...

Shape Memory Medical Inc. is a California-based, global medical device company dedicated to developing innovative therapeutic solutions with its proprietary shape memory polymers, with devices ...

Polymers that exhibit shape-memory effect (SME) are an important class of materials in medicine, especially for minimally invasive deployment of devices. Professor Subbu Venkatraman and his group from ...

image: MIT engineers created shape-memory materials made of ceramic rather than of traditional metal. The development opens a new range of applications, especially for actuators in high-temperature ...

Endowed with the power of memory, certain alloys can magically return to their original shape when heated or deformed. However, the repeated back-and-forth between the original and new configuration ...