Nitinol, Forged by Fire

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode 72 of the Professor Alex Volinsky podcast. NiTi (nitinol): the shape-memory alloy; Alex's long-running biomedical-alloy strand with the Marchenko group; porous NiTi is aimed at implants where bone grows into the pores Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS): mix elemental nickel and titanium powders, ignite one end; the exothermic formation reaction drives a combustion wave through the compact — synthesis by controlled fire; the product is naturally porous Based on the paper: Plasticity of Porous NiTi Alloys Obtained by Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis in Closed and Open Flow Reactors; E.S. Marchenko, Y.F. Yasenchuk, O. Mamazakirov, A.A. Klopotov, G.A. Baigonakova, A.A. Volinsky, S.V. Gunter; Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 2023, Vol. 38(6), pp. 659-667. Hosts Elena and Marcus. AI-generated voices.

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