The Future
What does the future hold for Nitinol? In this chapter, Tom speculates about the potential of shape memory applications, R-phase, and such emerging technologies as thin-film constructs, and porous Nitinol. ...continue reading
Other Alloys Exhibiting Shape Memory Effects
Other alloys exhibiting shape memory effects, including beta-titanium, brass, bronze, and nickel-aluminum. ...continue reading
A Historical Perspective
The history of steel dates thousands of years to ancient times, stainless steel has been prominent for about a hundred years, and Nitinol for perhaps a couple of decades. In this short chapter, Tom traces the ancestors of modern nickel titanium, dating to the 1930's. ...continue reading
A Short Orientation
The "shape memory triangle" introduces the concepts of shape memory and superelasticity effects in Nitinol. This quick installment includes the first of many figures that we'll refer to in this series. ...continue reading
Nitinol: The Book. An Introduction
Today we introduce an exciting new original series to NitinolUniversity.com. Over twenty years have passed since the famously out-of-print Engineering Aspects of Shape Memory Alloys was published. In the subsequent decades, Tom Duerig, Alan Pelton, and colleagues here at NDC have learned quite a bit, and we’ve set out to write it all down in ...continue reading
Self Expanding Nitinol Stents (2003)
By the year 2003, Nitinol stents played a dominant role in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease. A great variety of designs had been launched into clinical service, some more successfully than others. This review was authored by the familiar NDC trio of Dieter Stoeckel, Alan Pelton, and Tom Duerig, and published in European Radiology. ...continue reading
Authors: Dieter Stoeckel, Alan Pelton, Tom Duerig
SMA – Smart Materials for Medical Applications (2002)
In this paper from the proceedings of SPIE, Tom Duerig, Dieter Stoeckel, and David Johnson present some basic information on the properties of superelasticity and shape memory exhibited by Nitinol. The authors describe vascular applications including stents and filters, and some testing and characterization techniques applicable to such devices. This paper is notable in its ...continue reading
Authors: Duerig, Stoeckel, Johnson
Citation: Proceedings of SPIE 4763 pp. 7‐15
An Overview of Nitinol Medical Applications (1999)
When mining our server logs in preparation for creating NitinolUniversity.com, we found that two articles in our literature database had far and away more hits than any other. So, it seems fitting that the first paper in our spotlight should be this 1999 classic by our own Tom Duerig, Alan Pelton, and Dieter Stöckel. Though ...continue reading
Authors: Duerig,
Pelton,
Stoeckel
Citation: Materials
Science
and
Engineering
A273‐275
pp.149‐160
Introducing NitinolUniversity.com
About two years ago, in May 2008, NDC regained its independence as a privately held company. To celebrate our one year anniversary, in May 2009, we launched a new brand identity and website at www.nitinol.com. This year, for our two year anniversary, we introduce a new feature of the website, NitinolUniversity.com ...continue reading