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TAO XI WANG
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
WEI MIN HUANG
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
YONG ZHAO
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, 212013, P. R. China.
ZHEN DING
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
YAN LI
School of Material Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.
Abstract
Additional mechanisms are experimentally demonstrated to realize the shape memory effect (SME) in metallic materials. It is concluded that the SME is not limited to some particular metals/alloys, but achievable in many metallic materials via design.