You’re missing something. Racquets need a combination of stiff and flexible graphite. My understanding of Graphene was to increase energy transfer and strength. You can’t make a stiff brittle racquet. You need a blend of stiffness in the carbon fiber.
I’m no head rep or expert for that matter but I think the placement of said technologies matters a lot. Graphene in throat allows lower overall weight and more polarization and spiralfibers in strategic locations help gain back some of the flex to add feel and comfort? Just a guess. Regardless of the tech claims, I think the 360+ layups have definitely made each Head line better than any of the previous graphene era ones.
“Only good vibes”
At 100$ to 200$ for 1g of graphene, depending on quality, how much graphene is there in your skis in your opinion? I have absolutely no knowledge in skis, but I’d guess pretty close to 0 is right answer.
This is the essence of the problem. People hear/read graphene and think of something veryyyy far from reality.
Yes. I received a check in a rather large sum because I owned like 10+ Babolat racquets and therefore qualified for the max class action settlement.
Haha, nice..
Except that Head does have Graphene in it as stated...
www.head.com
Cool. But that’s a tiny bit of graphene for a whole ski. I hope the graphene runs the full length of the ski.Ski Technology Graphene – HEAD
here you can also see where, and how much they put in (not much, but still):
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I believe you have inside info. Do you know how much and what type/quality they used or are using? As the price of graphene drops, maybe they’ll use more and more of the good stuff.
They just need to use a tiny bit to avoid any lawsuits. Noticed how everyone has players “endorsing” frames now? That’s what companies learned from Babolat’s lawsuit. I’m sure they learn to use at least some of the material they promote.
Why did you remove your first line of the original post???
www.nature.com
Gotta love Head's marketing description for graphene, so many problems with it - "Nobel prize winning material ... lighter than wood and metal, yet harder than diamond and steel." A lot of materials are "lighter" than wood and metal, and technically it would be impossible to measure graphene's hardness because it's literally a single layer of carbon atoms; hardness isn't even a relevant property for graphene. Also, Head is not using the material that won the Nobel prize. I'd bet my entire savings account that the stuff they're sprinkling into the layup is not monolayer graphene. But don't take my word for it. Here's a snippet from an article y'all might find informative from Nature Journal, link to full article below. Article is from 2013, but to my knowledge, to date there still hasn't been a breakthrough in large-scale synthesis of true monolayer graphene.
"Despite its manufacturing challenges, enthusiasts are quick to point out that graphene has already hit the market. Multi-layered graphene, in which many sheets are stacked together, is used to strengthen a tennis racquet made by Head, for example, and forms a conductive circuit in anti-theft packaging produced by Vorbeck Materials in Jessup, Maryland.
But these cheaper forms of graphene include a range of different structures that are essentially nanometre-sized chunks of graphite. The properties of this sooty jumble of fragments are no match for Mr G's superpowers, which reach their zenith only in pristine, one-atom-thick layers in which the atomic arrangement is perfect. Only in this state can electrons flow more quickly than in any other material."
Graphene: The quest for supercarbon - Nature
Graphene's dazzling properties promise a technological revolution, but Europe may have to spend a billion euros to overcome some fundamental problems.
