This vintage video about Nitinol metal engines demonstrates early experiments with solid-state heat engines that work on a very low temperature difference.
Free energy Nitinol heat machines
Materials science at the International Space Station
Watch European Space Agency astronaut, Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronaut, Kayla Barron, as they discuss electron microscopes, antimicrobial spoons, and other materials science topics aboard the International Space Station.
Laser peening process
See how laser peening works in this animation from Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies.
New effective paradigm for material science used on the idea of functional motif
Based on the “functional motif” idea, a study conducted by Dr. Xiao-Ming Jiang and Prof Guo-Cong Guo (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences) presents a new research paradigm for material studies.
A material that could save and reuse industrial heat
Scientists in Japan have found a common substance that can reversibly and rapidly store and release relatively large amounts of low-grade heat without decomposing. The research could lead to more efficient reuse of industrial waste heat.