Talk:Muscle wire

Some of the material on this page seems to be copy/pasted from the Octofungi site linked at the bottom of the page. 76.18.73.8 01:00, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

according to this site: http://www.mondotronics.com/shapememoryalloys.shtml muscle wires and flexinol are not the same thing

I think this is not entirely correct: the electrical current will heat the wire above a certain temperature at which the wire will deform. If one returns to the original temperature, the wire can go to its original shape (depends on the amount of alloying elements). Flexinol is nothing more than a shape memory alloy. Working principle is the same. It is only the commercial name