News tagged with titanium alloy

Superelastic iron alloy could be used for heart and brain surgery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Japan have designed an elastic iron-based shape metal alloy for use in applications as diverse as heart and brain surgery and buildings in earthquake-prone areas.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Building better bone replacements with bacteria

Bacteria that manufacture hydroxyapatite (HA) could be used to make stronger, more durable bone implants. Professor Lynne Macaskie from the University of Birmingham this week (7-10 September) presented work to the Society ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Neutron scattering charts moves of memory-shape alloys that change structure in response to environmental cues

(Phys.org) -- Shape-memory alloys (SMAs) are an engineer's dream, able to shape-shift spontaneously to accommodate changing operating conditions. A research team from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanotubes that Heal: Engineering Better Orthopedic Implants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium and its alloys have a leg up on all other materials used to make the orthopedic implants used by surgeons to repair damaged bones and joints. They are light, super-strong, and virtually ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 7

Future naval force may sail with the strength of titanium

Steel may have met its match: An Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded project will produce a full-size ship hull section made entirely with marine-grade titanium using a welding innovation that could help bring titanium ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Engineers, doctors develop novel material that could help fight arterial disease

A fortuitous discovery that grew out of a collaboration between UCLA engineers and physicians could potentially offer hope to the nearly 10 million Americans who suffer from peripheral arterial disease.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Safety of combat military vehicles examined

A Queen's University Belfast academic is working on research that could help protect the lives of military based in Afghanistan.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Titanium foams replace injured bones

Flexible yet rigid like a human bone, and immediately capable of bearing loads: a new kind of implant, made of titanium foam, resembles the inside of a bone in terms of its structural configuration. Not only ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Placement of removable metal biliary stent in post-OLT anastomotic stricture

Benign biliary strictures after liver transplantation are usually treated by repeated endoscopic interventions or surgery. A group of researchers in Australia reported the outcome of two patients with refractory anastomotic ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0