Memoria de forma y cerámica superelástica a pequeña escala.

Alan Lai1, Zehui Du, Chee Lip Gan

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 28, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron cerámicas robustas con memoria de forma mediante la creación de estructuras oligocristalinas a escala fina. Estos materiales avanzados superan la fragilidad, permitiendo numerosos ciclos superelásticos para actuadores de alto rendimiento.

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