With the advancement of additive manufacturing (AM), customized vascular stents can now
be fabricated to fit the curvatures and sizes of a narrowed or blocked blood vessel, thereby …

Abstract Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are metals with unique properties that allow them to
revert to a predefined shape when heated. Thermal and thermo-mechanical treatments can …

In energy absorption applications, architectured metallic materials generally suffer from
unrecoverable deformation as a result of local yield damage or inelastic buckling. Nitinol …

Laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) can be potentially used for producing patient-specific
biomedical devices based on micro struts such as cardiovascular stents. NiTi alloys are an …

To fabricate complex structures made of nitinol (NiTi), additive manufacturing (AM) has
drawn significant interest. However, due to its high microstructural and compositional …

This work investigated the effects of test temperature on the ball-on-slab wear behavior of
nickel-titanium (NiTi) alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion. The average steady-state …

NiTi alloys exhibit significant potential for biological applications, and the fabrication of
customized NiTi geometries is greatly facilitated by the use of laser powder bed fusion …

Polymeric vascular bioresorbable stents (BRSs) have been widely used for the treatment of
coronary artery diseases. While additive manufacturing (AM) is changing the landscape of …

The anisotropy of microstructure, electrical conductivity and mechanical properties of Cu-Cr-
Zr alloys under different scanning strategies were comprehensively investigated. The effect …

Additive manufacturing of architected materials, particularly lattice or porous structures, has
garnered significant interest in recent years due to its ability to enhance weight-to-strength …