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Spinoff story
Teaching an Old Metal New Tricks
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
In the 1960s, Langley Research Center oversaw a comprehensive investigation of the shape memory alloy nitinol, research that was foundational to nitonol products from Metalwerks, including a new formulation. The Aliquippa, Pennsylvania-based company supplies the medical field and high-tech manufacturing industries with the shape memory alloy.