Smart Materials: The Stuff That Remembers, Bends, and Responds
Smart Materials: The Stuff That Remembers, Bends, and Responds A piece of wire sits coiled in a tray. You bend it out of shape. Then a nurse holds it near a patient's body, and it bends itself back. That's not a magic trick. It's engineering. And it points to something genuinely new in materials science: [...]