Jointly with the Ural State Medical Academy, the Institute of Metal Physics has developed and manufactured highly reliable and durable medical devices, apparatus, and tools made of titanium nickelide alloys. They are bioinert, nontoxic, and easily sterilized.

 The miniature devices are effcient in osteosynthesis and restorative surgery; rigid compressive fixation; superelastic self-adjusting fixation; temperaturecontrolled fixation; and permanent or temporary fixation. Apparatus of the «Zakhvat» (clutch) type are equipped with tools, which possess controlled thermomechanical shape memory characteristics and exhibit superplasticity; they have been approved by the Russian Ministry of Health. They extend clinical opportunities for surgeons, who can perform low-invasive endoscopic operations. About 1,000 apparatus have been in use in the CIS countries.