MIT News  October 5, 2022 Researchers at MIT used computational thermodynamics, phase transformation physics, crystallographic calculations, and machine learning to solve the problem of creating a material that can actuate without accumulating damage, thus making it possible for it to function reliably as a shape-memory material through many cycles of use resulting in a new variation of zirconia. They introduced some atoms of different elements into its structure in a way that altered some of its properties. The elements dissolved into the lattice, and they sculpt it, and changed that transformation, made it more gentle at the atomic scale. The […]