Active Knit Compression Stockings
University of Minnesota Saint Paul, MN - Award of Excellence
Active Knit Compression Stockings offer a new, market alternative to under-sized elastic and inflatable compression technologies by leveraging recent advancements to smart material design. Shape memory alloys (SMA) are a type of smart material with shape recovery abilities that can be designed (through an annealing process) to return to a remembered form when heated. In …