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Alloys with long memories

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An alloy has been made that undergoes a remarkably reproducible phase transition over thousands of cycles. This finding could allow the development of practically useful materials that 'remember' their shape after deformation. See Letter p.85

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Figure 1: Physical properties of shape-memory alloys.

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