Quote:Granted - but in reading the article, it isn't quite clear to me whether the remolding qualities of the metal are a one-time only thing or not. In other words - can you heat it up and remold it more than once? Or is it stuck in it's set form after the first time? It seems that they are touting the initial manufacturing qualities of the metal - it's ease in molding and shaping - and not talking very much about it's subsequent durability under those same heat conditions after the manufacturing process. Does it behave more like normal steel after the first time that it's reheated? I don't think they said.
>Maybe they make the plating for the Evangelion armor out of this stuff? Progressive knives?
Kinda unlikely, since both the knives and even more the armor have been shown to be able to take a truly tremendous amount of heat without major reaction.
View the Fifth angel - both Units take fire from a weapon that could vaporize titanium - and the armor isn't penetrated.
I've heard of memory metals that snap to an original position under specific heat or current loads - but those are all one-time deals. I have yet to hear about a memory metal that snaps back and forth multiple times in real life. Then again, I don't rabidly keep up with this stuff either. So I may be out of date.
-Logan