Hi, i'm new to this badminton forum, and I was wondering if there were anyone with any knowledge of how the high-end badminton rackets are made. For example I have been on the yonex website, and I've read about the nanotechnology involved in making nanospeed rackets. For all the scientific people here, I've realized the nanotechnology is made from tiny carbon nanotubes or carbon nano-"soccer balls". If anyone out there know any interesting information about how this nanotechnology used in the nanospeed rackets, please post here! By the way, this is for a chemistry assignment that I'm working on, and it has been quite difficult to find more detailed, chemistry related information about this topic. I'm mainly focusing on the actually carbon atoms/molecule/compounds that are involved. Again thank you, in advance, for any information that may be posted here.
The Yonex advertisement is somewhat in that the material from nanotechnology in rackets is likely carbon nanotubes (bucky tubes), instead of bucky balls (please correct me if I'm wrong). I recommend looking up carbon nanotubes.
No, there are Buckminster Fullerene (Bucky Balls) in the 3 and 9 o'clock positions of the frame, and carbon nanotubes in select parts of the rest of the frame. The majority of it is still just high modulus graphite. There aren't "bucky-tubes", the nano-carbon just means they've got powdered carbon filling up the gaps between the tubes and glued and stuff.
are there? and i thought for the Ns9k the entire shaft is made of fullerene. Only on lower end ns models theres fullerene + hm graphite as stated.
anybody got a clue what those things cost? I really have no idea... I thought I heard somebody say a gram of buckeyballs costs ~150usd.... if so, it's not likely to be véry present in a racket, now is it? (still looking for a source though)
indeed, diamonds are a product of nature...Buckeyballs / nanotubes have millions of dollars worth of R&D in it... I wouldn't be surprised if it really cost that much... Google is not helping either...
so is the inner part of your pencil...what's the point? excuse the bad pun Also, buckeyballs are not likely to be used because nobody is absolutly sure how it reacts in the outer world (reacting with bacteria etc) http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6458
My suggestion is that you first use the search function of this forum.. There are MANY posts on technology, Nanotubes, buckyballs, fullerene etc. etc. in the forum with lots of information already. /Twobeer
Thanks a lot for the contribution everyone! I've looked a lot of stuff. All containing buckyballs and whatnot. I also contacted Yonex to see if they would let me know how they use the nanotechnology (chemically based) to create rackets. they unfortunately emailed back and said whatever is advertised or displayed on their website is all they are allowed to give out to the public...
lol cmon silentheart, send me a email! lol I won't tell anyone... I got 3 days till this project is due! Gotta ace chemistry to get myself into Waterloo!
?confused? lol well i'm going to Waterloo for mechanical engineering whats this Napolean stuff? i'm not much of an historian
it's a famous battlesite in Europe where napolean was defeated while having greater numbers. (uphill battle, mud, canons, bad charges, brilliant carre from the opposition) sorry, I'm a sorta (selective memory) history fan anyhoo....nanotec? Are buckeyballs actually in use at the moment? With all the toxic stuff and so forth?
