Thousands of people worked for almost two decades on construction and testing of the optical and science segment of the of NASA’sJames Webb Space Telescope.
The University of Nevada, Reno, announces that its engineers have designed bridge columns made of a flexible concrete reinforced with Nitinol rods to resist collapse during earthquakes.
Exergyn, Dublin, Ireland, has created a new engine called the Exergyn Drive, which turns waste hot water into electricity by means of Nitinol, which undergoes a phase transition when heated and reverts to its original shape when cooled.
Tohoku University, Japan, announces that a newly discovered magnesium-scandium alloy with a bcc structure shows a martensitic transformation and exhibits the superelastic effect at −150°C (−238°F).
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., announces that its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program has awarded a total of nearly $12 million in first-year funding to 11 organizations that will operate MEP centers in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming.
