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Aguilar Vega, CarlosAuthorZapata Martinez, RodrigoAuthorMolina-Aldareguia, JonAuthorDiaz Lantada, AndresCorresponding Author

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January 7, 2026
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Superelastic 3D printed nitinol lattices and wovens lead to dramatic variations of mechanical properties by design

Publicated to: Virtual and Physical Prototyping. 21 (1): e2595478- - 2026-12-31 21(1), DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2025.2595478

Authors:

Aguilar Vega, Carlos; Contreras-Almengor, Oscar; Zapata Martinez, Rodrigo; Li, Muzi; Martinez, Vanesa; San Roman, Amalia; Molina-Aldareguia, Jon; Diaz Lantada, Andres
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Affiliations

IMDEA Mat Inst, C Eric Kandel 2, Getafe 28906, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Mech Engn Dept, C Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, Madrid 28006, Spain - Author

Abstract

Superelastic nickel-titanium alloys are outstanding materials, whose recent additive manufacturability is bound to expand their industrial applications and their personalised implementation. However, the superelastic properties of additively processed NiTi parts do not yet match those achieved with conventional casting and forging techniques, especially regarding elasticity and recoverable strains. Consequently, design for additive manufacturing strategies is required to compensate for the low elasticity achieved. Following this rationale, this study presents a novel algorithm-based design methodology for creating highly deformable interwoven metamaterials. Specifically tailored for additive manufacturing of NiTi structures, this strategy greatly enhances the intrinsic superelastic properties of the material. This design framework can be adapted to almost any topology and path, leading to new kinds of metamaterials and devices. To methodically characterise and validate the aforementioned metamaterials, two main types of design families, lattices and wovens, were successfully additively manufactured with NiTi and methodically evaluated.
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Keywords

4d printingAdditive manufacturingMechanical metamaterialsMedical devicesNitinolShape-memory alloysSmart materials and structures

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Virtual and Physical Prototyping due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2026, it was in position 8/71, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Manufacturing.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-03-31:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 1.

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 32.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 42 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (AGUILAR VEGA, CARLOS) and Last Author (DIAZ LANTADA, ANDRES).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been DIAZ LANTADA, ANDRES.

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Awards linked to the item

This work was supported by Comunidad de Madrid [grant number Y2020/BIO-6756].
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