Nitinol
Nitinol is a critical material for catheter-delivered heart valve replacements. Pictured is nitinol wire used in Medtronic’s Harmony valve. [Photo courtesy of Medtronic]
Welcome to Medical Design & Outsourcing’s Nitinol Hub, your resource for nitinol expertise from medical device OEMs, nitinol suppliers, contract development and manufacturing organizations and other nitinol partners.
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Bookmark this page for coverage of the latest and greatest nitinol innovations, nitinol supply chain updates, and exclusive interviews with medical device engineers, designers and other experts working with nitinol.
If you’re just getting started with medical-grade nitinol (a metal alloy of nickel and titanium also known as NiTi), we have a resource page to help you understand what nitinol is and how its superelastic and shape memory properties are used in medical devices and minimally invasive procedures.
You can also learn more about how medical-grade nitinol is manufactured, how that raw material is processed into wire, tubes and sheets, and how those are machined and finished to make medical devices.
For more advanced nitinol knowledge, check out our May 2026 Nitinol Knowledge webinar with Medtronic Distinguished Engineer Ramesh Marrey and watch our on-demand 2025 Nitinol Knowledge webinar with retired Edwards Lifesciences Engineering SVP Ming Wu. We’ve also hosted a webinar with Capstan Medical R&D head Greg Dachs, whose startup is developing nitinol-enabled transcatheter heart valves and a robotics platform for implanting them.
On-demand replays are now available for our 2025 and 2026 MDO Min-Vasive Medtech series of live interviews with OEM engineers working on minimally invasive devices and procedures, including nitinol-enabled systems. You can also download transcripts of some of those interviews (plus our interview with Greg Dachs at Capstan Medical) for free here.
You can learn more by downloading our free Nitinol Innovation Special Reports featuring nitinol expertise and tips from medical device OEMs and interviews with medtech experts developing nitinol-enabled pulsed-field ablation systems.
