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AI-generated illustration of a silvery nitinol spring rising from a clear beaker of warm water, with a bent wire on a dark laboratory bench, evoking heat-triggered shape recovery; not an experimental photograph.

How Can a Metal Remember Its Shape?

Nitinol recovers its shape through reversible crystal transformations. The same metallurgy enables heat-driven motion and superelastic medical devices.

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