Shape Change makes porous shape-memory implant material.(SMST SOCIETY)

Shape Change Technologies, Thousand Oaks, Calif., is expanding the possibilities of shape memory materials with the development of porous, near net-shape nickel titanium with shape memory properties. The proprietary synthesis process creates high quality porous shape memory material without deleterious impurities for orthopedic implants. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The net shape TiNi components are produced by a Combustion Synthesis (a.k.a. Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis or SHS) process. Combustion synthesis is a rapid ...