RESEARCH ARTICLE
Book Review on “Thin Film Shape Memory Alloys-Fundamentals and Device Applications”
Shuichi Miyazaki1, Yong Qing Fu2, *, Wei Min Huang3
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 2
First Page: 49
Last Page: 50
Publisher Id: TOMDJ-2-49
DOI: 10.2174/18751814010020200049
Article History:
Received Date: 21/5/2009Revision Received Date: 1/6/2009
Acceptance Date: 2/6/2009
Electronic publication date: 19/1/2010
Collection year: 2010
© 2010 Miyazaki et al.;
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are amazing materials that, after being severely deformed, can spontaneously return to their original shape upon heating. These materials possess a number of desirable properties, namely, high actuation power or force, large recovery strain, pseudoelasticity (or superelasticity), good chemical resistance and biocompatibility, etc. These unique features have attracted much attention toward the potential applications of SMAs for military, medical, safety, and robotics applications. More recently, thin film SMAs have been recognized as a new type of promising and high performance material for micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and biological applications.
