Transformers convert the standard voltage from the wall outlet into the lower voltages required by electronic devices.
More efficient transformer materials
TimkenSteel to invest $40 million in quench-and-temper facility
TimkenSteel, Canton, Ohio, announces that it will locate an advanced quench-and-temper facility in Perry Township in northeast Ohio.
Shape-memory polymer designed to fill bone defects having irregular shapes
Researchers at Texas A&M University, College Station, report that they have developed a shape memory polymer scaffold that exhibits an open porous structure and has the capacity to conformally self-fit into irregular defects.
Shape-memory alloy coated with shape-memory polymer enables robotic fabric
Researchers at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., report that they have developed variable stiffness fibers made from shape memory materials in which a shape-memory alloy is coated with a thin film of shape-memory polymer.
Fort Wayne Metals offers Nitinol with ultra-smooth surface
Fort Wayne Metals, Fort Wayne, Ind., introduces Silk Nitinol, which has an ultra-smooth surface that has been found to significantly reduce snags in braiding operations.