Resumen de Ahead of the game: : minerals in sports
The most recent sport events, including FIFA World's Cup 2014 and the Commonwealth Games, show once again the importance of sport as a growing market for industrial minerals, which can offer new opportunities to industrial minerals suppliers worldwide.
Head, which first became interested in graphene science in 2008, used an Austrian government grant in 2011 to work with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to develop the racket, which is now being used by players around the world. In fact, it was wielded by Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who came second in the final of last year's Wimbledon tournament.
In the bases of ski and snowboards, aluminium, titanium carbon fibre and boron fibre are used, while ceramics used to make the boots these athletes wear comprise aluminium oxide, clay, hydroxyapatite, lead zirconate, titanate, lithium, silica, silicon carbide, tin oxide, titanium dioxide yttria-stabilised zirconia and zirconium diboride.
