The innovation and technology is one of the coolest things about interventional cardiology. Nitonol is a combination of Nickel and Titanium. Known for his remarkable elasticity and shaped memory. It is used in a variety of medical devices such as Vascular and Biliary stents, valves as shown here, and others Nitinol’s magic comes from its ability to shift between two crystal structures: a stiffer, stronger Austenite phase (at higher temperatures) and a softer, more flexible Martensite phase (at l