Nanomaterials for application in the areas of Sports
13 July 2009Nanomaterials are being used by every industry including from electronics, energy to medicine and the demand of these nanomaterials will continuously grow further in the near future. Nanotechnology will bring a revolution in almost all the industries including sporting industry in the 21st century.
The only nanomaterial that is of significant use in sporting application is carbon nanotube. The production of carbon nanotube is continuously growing at a continuous pace in the coming years. According to an estimate the carbon nanotube market was worth $100 million in the year 2007 and many more commercial carbon nanotubes producers are planning to start the increased production of these within the next 2-3 years.
At present an estimate says that around 14 percent of world production of carbon nanotubes is being used by sporting industries. As the production will go up within a couple of years and price will come down significantly, more carbon nanotubes will be required by sporting industries.
At present a limited applications of carbon nanotubes are available especially in sporting industries such as rackets, skis, gold shafts and snowboards are only based on carbon nanotubes. As the market will grow, many more sporting accessories will be based on carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials.
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The safety of carbon nanotubes for the use in every day products and. The lack of regulations creates an insecurity amongst producers. The Swiss Federal Institute of Public Health seems to be the first country to publish a raster to help the industry to better estimate potential harm of nanomaterials.
More information about the precautionary matrix for synthetic nanomaterials can be found here: http://www.bag.admin.ch/themen/chemikalien/00228/00510/05626/index.html?lang=en#