Teijin supplies polyester nanofibre for new Srixon golf gloves
10/04/2012
The gloves, the Srixon GGG-S005, will have high levels of grip, the companies have said, thanks to Nanofront’s frictional properties and soft texture. Teijin says the polyester nanofibre also offers high levels of absorption and diffusion of moisture for added comfort.
Nanofront has a thickness of just 700 nanometres, making it 7,500 times smaller than the cross section of human hair. Bumps on the surface of Nanofront raise frictional force and produce a surface area dozens of times greater than that of regular fibre, resulting in high levels of slip resistance.
Teijin recently announced a finer version of Nanofront with a fibre diameter of 400 nanometres, which it claims is “an unprecedented achievement for a commercial polyester fibre”.
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