Nanomaterials and advantages of its incorporation in sporting equipments [ 11] Application of nanotechnology in sport includes mainly used nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, silicon dioxide nanoparticles, fullerenes, carbon nanoparticles, bringing multi-properties in sport equipment.
Nanotechnology has potential applications across many defensive and offensive weapons areas.
Nanotechnology has a big potential to improve a broad range of aspects of the sports world [ 28, 29 ]. By enhancing equipment, nanotechnology changes the way golf plays.
Nanoengineered sports materials and equipments are subjected to much greater power, resistance, and lifespan as compared to habitual sports equipments. Different companies have been creating more innovative products and ideas to implement nanotechnology into sports materials and equipment.
By enhancing equipment, nanotechnology changes the way golf plays. A newly designed golf stick with a long, narrow part of the rod covered with nanomaterials enables us to reduce weight and increase the strength by ensuring the speed of the golf ball head. The Wilson company predominates in the use of nanotechnology in sports not only by using nano
Tennis is a main example of how nanotechnology is having an interesting impact on sports equipment. “Wilson” has been able to create tennis rackets that are twice more stable compared to conventional rackets. According to present research, this rackets are up to 22% more powerful. As a result of increasing the quality and performance capability can
One of the first examples of how nanotechnology has changed the world of sports took place at the 2008. Olympics when sports equipment manufacturers introduced a new, watertight, waterproofing suit and ensures greater navigability. These swimsuits have led to skirmishes of nearly 200 world records, as they have a number of advantages over ordinary,
Like swimming, where friction reduction was an important milestone, nanotechnology also found its applications in car racing. The Nanotec - USA company has implemented Nano Bionics treatment on Nish Sports’ engines and has thus enabled cars to go much faster. It has been possible to reduce fuel consumption by 50%, and the cars could develop a speed
One of the first uses of nanomaterials in cycling was in 2006. When Floyd Landis was riding a bicycle with built-in carbon nanotubes, he won the famous World Tour Tour de France. This was the first example of the use of nanomaterials in standard bicycle design [38]. BMC, the Swiss company producing the Landis bicycle, in co-operation with Easton Sp
Applications in athletics including materials such as nano silver are non-toxic, smelless, non-metamorphic, without decomposition and has no stimulation to human skin. Countries, like China, has added nano silver in the development of sports shoes to make them antibacterial [5]. Nano fiber plays a vital role in the friction brake, especially to bal
In 2006 Honolulu’s Oceanit Laboratories Inc. was the first producer of a surfboard with embedded nanomaterials. It is the first “nano” surfboards in the world where tiny particles are found in epoxy resin coatings, and make the board stronger than the normal epoxy resin [43]. Andy Jordan, a surfer from Sea City has come up with a water-repellent so