by xotmetals | Apr 1, 2021 | Niobium
Description Niobium is a shiny silver-white metal; covered with a bluish oxide film. Niobium was discovered in 1801 by the English scientist Charles Hatchet in a mineral sent back in 1734 to the British Museum from Massachusetts by John Winthrop (grandson of John...
by xotmetals | Mar 30, 2021 | Nitinol, Titanium
Nitinol has a unique combination of shape memory, superelasticity, fatigue resistance and biocompatabilityThough many Nitinolapplications are invisible to the general public, some are quite familiar. Eyeglass frames made from Nitinol can be bent severely out of shape,...
by xotmetals | Mar 24, 2021 | Nitinol, Titanium
A very special class of materials can “remember” their shape. After deformation you can just heat them and they return to their original form. A number of different shape memory materials have been developed, but one in particular has become a standby in many...
by xotmetals | Mar 17, 2021 | Nitinol
Weaving textiles from nickel-titanium (NiTi) wires offers a way to give garments a ‘shape memory’ where they can return to their original shape after being deformed by applying heat. new ways to make and process wires to take advantage of the numerous, exciting...
by xotmetals | Mar 10, 2021 | Niobium
Niobium Sputtering Target Description Niobium is a lustrous, grey, ductile, paramagnetic metal in group 5 of the periodic table (see table), with an electron configuration in the outermost shells atypical for group 5. (This can be observed in the neighborhood of...
